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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

noetic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /nəʊˈɛt.ɪk/ (UK)
  • /noʊˈɛt.ɪk/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νοητικός (noētikós), ultimately from νοέω (noéō, “I see, understand”).

Meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to the mind or intellect.
    • Homeric Greeks valued clichés because not only the poets but the entire oral noetic world or thought world relied upon the formulaic constitution of thought. 1982, Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 23–24:
  2. Originating in or apprehended by reason.

Forms

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more noetic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most noetic Degree=Sup lexicographic
noetick alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Deriveds

noegenesis · noetic flatness · noetically · autonoetic

Relateds

noesis

Translations (12)

bg интелектуален (of or pertaining to the mind or intellect) · it noetico (of or pertaining to the mind or intellect) · ru интеллектуа́льный (of or pertaining to the mind or intellect) · fr noétique (originating in or apprehended by reason) · fr noétique (of or pertaining to the mind or intellect) · bg умствен (originating in or apprehended by reason) · fi ymmärryksellinen (of or pertaining to the mind or intellect) · es noético (of or pertaining to the mind or intellect) · cs noetický (originating in or apprehended by reason) · fi ymmärryksellinen (originating in or apprehended by reason) · ru у́мственный (of or pertaining to the mind or intellect) · cs noetický (of or pertaining to the mind or intellect)

noetic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /nəʊˈɛt.ɪk/ (UK)
  • /noʊˈɛt.ɪk/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νοητικός (noētikós), ultimately from νοέω (noéō, “I see, understand”).

Meanings

  1. The science of the intellect.
  2. A purely intellectual entity.

Forms

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noetics Number=Plur lexicographic
noetick alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Translations (4)

bg ноетика (the science of the intellect) · cs noetika (purely intellectual entity) · eo noetiko (the science of the intellect) · cs noetika (the science of the intellect)