Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

noocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νόος (nóos, “mind”) + -cracy.

Meanings

  1. (neologism, rare, uncountable) Rule by intellect; a government which weds power with intelligence.
    • Similar to Plato’s “government of the wise,” a noocracy would be, in the words of “biosphere” popularizer Vladimir Vernadsky, “a social and political system based on the priority of the human mind.” 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:

Relateds

epistocracy