intelligentsia
in·tel·li·gentsia
noun
1.
an educated and intellectual elite
Origin
From Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija) or Polish inteligencja, from Latin intellegentia (“intelligence”). Doublet of intelligence.
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