intellectualize
verb[IorT]
(UKusuallyintellectualise)uk/ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.ə.laɪz/us/ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.ə.laɪz/tothinkabout ordiscussasubjectin adetailedandintellectualway, withoutinvolvingyouremotionsorfeelings:
(对…)作纯理性的探讨She couldn'tstandall thatpointlessintellectualizing aboutsubjectsthat just didn'tmatter.她无法容忍对无关紧要的问题进行无意义的理论探讨。
Logic and reason
- a fortiori
- a posteriori
- a priori
- analytic
- antinomy
- illogically
- incoherently
- inductive
- inductively
- intellectual
- non-theoretical
- non-verbal
- nonscientific
- paradox
- paradoxical
- teleology
- theoretical
- theoretically
- theory
- thinking