intelligence

noun

• 1the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills:an eminent man of great intelligence
• [count noun] a person or being with the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills:extraterrestrial intelligences

• 2the collection of information of military or political value:the chief of military intelligence
• people employed in the collection of military or political information:British intelligence has secured numerous local informers
• military or political information:the gathering of intelligence
• archaic information in general; news.