noetic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the mind.
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originating in or apprehended by the reason.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of noetic
First recorded in 1645–55; from Greek noētikós “intelligent, intellectual” equivalent to nóē(sis) noesis + -tikos -tic
Example Sentences
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That, of course, is more or less what Ian Holloway has been saying this week, possibly in between semi-coherent outbursts concerning the overall state of football, poultry and advanced noetic theory.
From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2011
Empiricism on the other hand is satisfied with the type of noetic unity that is humanly familiar.
From Pragmatism by James, William
It is a sort of mental equivalent for them, their epistemological function, their value in noetic terms.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
Now fatigue, personal and perhaps racial, is just what arrests in the incomplete and mere memory or noetic stage.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
And even in man, only as man is supernatural, above nature, noetic.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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