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- intellectuals considered as a group or class, especially as a cultural, social, or political elite.
noun
- the intelligentsia the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
“the intellectual class collectively,” 1905, from Russian intelligyentsia, from Latin intelligentia (see intelligence). Perhaps via Italian intelligenzia.
Intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite.