intellectual pursuits
Activities of thought
Intellectual pursuits are activities that engage the mind rather than the body—reading, writing, research, philosophical inquiry, or scholarly study.
The phrase often carries a note of seriousness or high culture, distinguishing such activities from entertainment or physical recreation: She devoted her retirement to intellectual pursuits.
Someone who prefers intellectual pursuits may be praised as thoughtful or dismissed as impractical.
- brainstormingGenerating many ideas freely
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
- higher learningPost-secondary education
- liberal artsNon-vocational higher education
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
deduction · anthropology · musicology · epistemology · literature · research · academic writing · ideation · creative problem solving · thesis · poetry · pedagogy · storytelling · linguistics · theater · phenomenology · ontology · logic
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- public educationpublic school, public schools, state school, public university, state university
- ancient GreeceAthens, Sparta, Zeus, Parthenon, Acropolis
intellectual pursuitsmanual labor
Work done bodily
blue-collar work · manual work · hard labor · physical exertion · sports
intellectual pursuitshedonism
Pursuit of gratification
earthly pleasures · creature comforts · thrill-seeking · debauchery · revelry
intellectual pursuitsguilty pleasures
Enjoyments causing slight shame
reality TV · pulp fiction · brain candy · channel surfing · doomscrolling
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