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.
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.

noumenon
1. The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception.
2. Something beyond the tangible world that can only be known or identified by the intellect, not by the senses.
nous
1. Common sense; that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason.
2. In ancient Greek philosophy, the capacity to reason and acquire knowledge, as distinguished from sensation.
3. In some philosophies, the part of the human spirit that is capable of rational thought.
paranoia
1. Extreme, irrational, and unreasonable suspicion or distrust of other people and their motives.
2. A psychiatric disorder involving systematized delusion, usually of persecution.

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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