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citta

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[chit-uh] / ˈtʃɪt ə /

noun

Hinduism.
  1. the intellect or cognitive facility.


Etymology

Origin of citta

From Sanskrit

Example Sentences

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They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale.

From Time Magazine Archive

Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved.

From Time Magazine Archive

It becomes at this stage ultimately dissociated from citta which contains within it the root of all emotions, ideas, and actions.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

In all these lives the same citta was always following him.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

The spatial qualities of things are however perceived by the senses directly, but the time-order is a scheme of the citta or the buddhi.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

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