intelligence

noun

• 1the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills:an eminent man of great intelligence they underestimated her intelligence
• a person or being with the ability to acquire and apply knowledge:extraterrestrial intelligences

• 2the collection of information of military or political value:the chief of military intelligence [as modifier]:the intelligence department
• people employed in the collection of military or political information:French intelligence has been able to secure numerous local informers
• military or political information:the gathering of intelligence
• archaic information in general; news.