英知

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 英知 (えいち) is a literary noun for distinguished wisdom arising from accumulated experience and judgment.
• Basic usage: 人の英知を集める gathers many people’s wisdom as a resource for solving a problem, while 先人の英知が表れる makes earlier generations’ insight visible in architectural devices.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Collected and embodied wisdom
  • 英知を集める combines present judgments, whereas 英知が表れる recognizes inherited wisdom in a result. The noun is not mere information volume or an intelligence-test score.