Words Like NOUS

We have put together a list of words that are similar to NOUS.

12 Alternative Words Similar to nous

1 Mind Noun      Synonym Words Like Mind
2 Head Noun      Synonym Words Like Head
3 Brain Noun      Synonym Words Like Brain
4 Psyche Noun      Synonym Words Like Psyche
5 Cognition Noun      Synonym Words Like Cognition
6 Knowledge Noun      Synonym Words Like Knowledge
7 Noesis Noun      Synonym Words Like Noesis
8 Sense Noun      Synonym Words Like Sense
9 Intellect Noun      Synonym Words Like Intellect
10 Understanding Noun      Synonym Words Like Understanding
11 Talent Noun      Synonym Words Like Talent
12 Noddle Noun      Hyponym Words Like Noddle

1 examples of nous

1 I couldn't get his words out of my head

10 definitions of nous

1 Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.
2 The reason; the highest intellect; God regarded as the World Reason.
3 common sense
4 that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
5 Philosophy Reason and knowledge as opposed to sense perception.
6 Philosophy The rational part of the individual human soul.
7 Philosophy The principle of the cosmic mind or soul responsible for the rational order of the cosmos.
8 Philosophy In Stoicism, the equivalent of Logos.
9 Philosophy In Neo-Platonism, the image of the absolute good, containing the cosmos of intelligible beings.
10 Chiefly British Good sense; shrewdness: "Hillela had the nous to take up with the General when he was on the up-and-up again” ( Nadine Gordimer).
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