Synonyms for intelligentsia
ɪnˌtɛl ɪˈdʒɛnt si ə, -ˈgɛnt-in·tel·li·gentsi·a

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1. intelligentsia, clerisynoun

   an educated and intellectual elite

   Synonyms:
   clerisy

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1. List of paraphrases for "intelligentsia":

   intellectual, intelligence

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1. G.K. Chesterton:

   A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

2. Darren Beattie:

   In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled' The Intelligentsia and the Right.' I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely, it was the honor of my life to serve in the Trump Administration. I love President Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment.

3. Leon Trotsky:

   If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

4. Andrei Soldatov:

   If you take the Moscow liberal intelligentsia, and of course, I’m talking only about the people I know and I know of, I would say that maybe 70% left. It’s journalists, it’s people from universities, sometimes schools, artists, people who have clubs and [foundations] in Moscow that got closed down.

5. Darren Beattie:

   In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled' The Intelligentsia and the Right.' I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely, it was the honor of my life to serve in the Trump Administration. I love President Donald Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment.