noesis

noun
/nəʊˈiːsɪs/UK/noʊˈisɪs/US

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νόησις (nóēsis, “concept”, “idea”, “intelligence”, “understanding”), from νοεῖν (noeîn, “to intend”, “to perceive”, “to see”, “to understand”) (from νοῦς (noûs, “mind”, “thought”), from νόος (nóos)) + -σις (-sis), suffix forming nouns of action.

  1. learned borrowing from νόησις

Definitions

  1. Cognition, the functioning of intellect.

  2. The exercise of reason.

  3. The consciousness component of noetics, which concerns the duality of noesis and noema.

    • Husserl calls the noesis the meaning-giving element of the act, and the noema he calls the meaning given in the act."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for noesis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA