nous
noun/naʊs/UK/nuːs/US
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek νοῦς (noûs) or νόος (nóos, “mind”).
- borrowed from νοῦς
Definitions
The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional.
- I feel the will to roam, to learn By test, experience, nous, That fire is hot and ocean deep, And wolves carnivorous.
The divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.
Common sense
Common sense; practical intelligence.
- to demonstrate nous
- There is nothing original in absent-mindedness. True originality lies elsewhere. Really, the lower classes have no nous.
- The emerging African elite felt little affection for the wahindi, seen as tight-fisted, snooty and brazenly colour-conscious, but its members knew they needed its business nous.
The neighborhood
- neighborautonoesis
- neighborautonoetic
- neighbormetanoia
- neighbornoema
- neighbornoesis
- neighbornoetic
- neighbornoocracy
- neighbornoogenesis
- neighbornoology
- neighbornoosphere
- neighbornootropic
- neighborparanoia
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nous. 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