noetic

American  

[noh-et-ik] / noʊˈɛt ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the mind.

2. originating in or apprehended by the reason.

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noetic British  

/ nəʊˈɛtɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the mind, esp to its rational and intellectual faculties

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Etymology

Origin of noetic

First recorded in 1645–55; from Greek noētikós “intelligent, intellectual” equivalent to nóē(sis) noesis + -tikos -tic

Example Sentences

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

These hours have for us a noetic value—"some veil did fall"—revealing visions remembered even unto the hour of death.

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette

Empiricism on the other hand is satisfied with the type of noetic unity that is humanly familiar.

From Pragmatism 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

The noetic faculty 393 is simply a regulative faculty; it furnishes the laws under which we compare and judge, but it does not supply any original elements of knowledge.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)