intelligentsia
n.
1. the intellectual elite of a society. intelligentsia (from latin: intelligentia) is a social stratum of people engaged in mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them. the term has been borrowed from russian, a transliteration of "интеллигенция" ("intelligentsiya").
see also: nothingness
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