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• scholar

  A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery...

• thinker

  Someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision).

• illusionist

  A person with unusual powers of foresight.

• theorist

  Someone who theorizes (especially in science or art).

• doubter

  Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.

• anomalist

  Someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases.

• decoder

  The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text.

• brain

  Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius";...

• alchemist

  One who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea...

• mentor

  A wise and trusted guide and advisor.

• synthesizer

  An intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods.

• aphorist

  Someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms.

• subjectivist

  A person who subscribes to subjectivism.

• highbrow

  A person of intellectual or erudite tastes.

• bel esprit

  A witty or clever person with a fine mind.

• clever Dick

  An intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable.

• egghead

  An intellectual; a very studious and academic person; "in spite of her love of reading she...

• mind

  An important intellectual; "the great minds of the 17th century".

• specifier

  Someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent).

• exponent

  Someone who expounds and interprets or explains.

• wonderer

  Someone who is curious about something.

• expositor

  A person who explains.