nous-, nou-, noe-, noes-, noet-, -noia +

(Greek: mind, intellect; the reason; common sense)


anoesis, anoesia
Absence of cognition or knowledge; a state of sheer feeling, having no reference to objects; noncognitive consciousness.
anoetic
Lacking the power of concentration.
autosynnoia
1. Self-preoccupation to such a degree that no attention is paid to the outside world.
2. Autism.
dianoetic
1. Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or an argument rather than intuition.
2. Referring to the intellectual functions, especially to reasoning.
dianoia
The mental faculty used in discursive reasoning.
erotomanic type paranoia
A form of paranoid delusion that someone is loved by another person.

The delusion is more nearly one of romantic or spiritual love, rather than physical. The object is usually someone who is of a higher status or who is famous, but it may be a complete stranger.

jealous-type paranoia
The unfounded conviction that the patient's spouse or lover is unfaithful.
litigious paranoia
Paranoia in which the patient institutes or threatens to institute legal action because of the imagined persecution.
noematic
Referring to thought or the operation of the mind.
noematical
Referring to the understanding.
noemics
The science of understanding; intellectual science.
noesis
The operation of the intellect; cognition.
noetic
1. Associated with or requiring the use of the mind.
2. Characteristic of, coming from, or understood by the human mind.
noumena
The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception.
noumenalism
A reference to an object of human inquiry, understanding or cognition.

The term is generally used in contrast with, or in relation to, "phenomenon", which refers to appearances, or objects of the senses. That which is perceived but not tangible.


Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "mind, mental" word units: anima-; anxi-; deliri-; hallucina-; menti-; moro-; noo-; phreno-; psych-; thymo-2.


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