"intellectually satisfying" is a correct, usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that piques intellectual curiosity, provides an intellectual challenge, or stimulates intellectual insight. For example, "The complex riddle was intellectually satisfying."
They are intricately plotted, cool as burnished steel, exciting and intellectually satisfying.
Yet this technology-by-default explanation is not very intellectually satisfying.
In the end, "Plowing the Dark" succeeds as spectacle, but it's not intellectually satisfying.
The belief that there was only one true God had a place within pagan philosophy, if not pagan religion, and was intellectually satisfying.
For the most part, however, Japanese writers, far from feeling dissatisfied with the limitations on expression imposed by their language, were convinced that virtuoso perfection in phrasing and an acute refinement of sentiment were more important to poetry than the voicing of intellectually satisfying concepts.
Buchan, who is himself an Englishman, is not very well known in America, but I can't believe that will be the case much longer: he is a daring, imaginative writer and this is a remarkable, if at times difficult book, one that is no less emotionally than intellectually satisfying.
These are intellectually-satisfying AND emotionally-regulating professions.
"I enjoy.the iconoclastic or out of the box ideas and.that's always been something that intellectually has been satisfying to me".
Beyond the comparison of paper versus computer, Shulman et al.'s taxonomy of errors shows us that the more careful we are in examining the types of errors occurring, the more clear it is we are often lumping together different problems in ways that are neither intellectually nor clinically satisfying.
No one else here has produced such a consistent, various, and intellectually as satisfying body of work..
Judging from my parish's filled pews on Saturdays and Sundays (five different services), the congregants are either completely brainwashed or, Heaven forbid, actually find their priests and the sacraments spiritually satisfying and intellectually challenging.
