noetic

English

WOTD – 6 April 2009

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /nəʊˈɛt.ɪk/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /noʊˈɛt.ɪk/
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Adjective

noetic (comparative more noetic, superlative most noetic)

  1. Of or pertaining to the mind or intellect.
    • 1982, Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 23–24:
      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.
  2. Originating in or apprehended by reason.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

noetic (plural noetics)

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

Translations

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French noétique.

Adjective

noetic m or n (feminine singular noetică, masculine plural noetici, feminine/neuter plural noetice)

  1. noetic

Declension

Declension of noetic
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite noetic noetică noetici noetice
definite noeticul noetica noeticii noeticele
genitive-
dative
indefinite noetic noetice noetici noetice
definite noeticului noeticei noeticilor noeticelor