Nous Definition

no͝os, nous
noun
Reason and knowledge as opposed to sense perception.
American Heritage
The rational part of the individual human soul.
American Heritage
Mind, reason, or intellect, specif. as a metaphysical principle.
Webster's New World
In Stoicism, the equivalent of Logos.
American Heritage
Shrewdness or understanding; savvy.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Nous

  • From Ancient Greek νοῦς (nous) or νόος (noös, “mind").

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nous Sentence Examples

  • The nous is indivisible; the soul may preserve its unity and remain in the nous, but at the same time it has the power of uniting with the corporeal world and thus being disintegrated.

  • Thought cannot attain to this, for thought reaches only to the nous, and is itself a kind of motion.

  • That is the office of the purifying virtues, by which the soul is freed from sensuality and led back to itself, and thence to the nous.

  • From this contact came Ialdabaoth the Demiurgos, who in turn produced six powers and with them created the seven heavens and from the dregs of matter the Nous of serpent form, from whom are spirit and soul, evil and death.

  • Beginning with the contemplation of corporeal things in their multiplicity and harmony, it then retires upon itself and withdraws into the depths of its own being, rising thence to the nous, the world of ideas.

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