Words Like NOUS
We have put together a list of words that are similar to NOUS.
12 Alternative Words Similar to nous
1 examples of nous
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I couldn't get his words out of my head
10 definitions of nous
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Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.
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The reason; the highest intellect; God regarded as the World Reason.
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that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
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Philosophy Reason and knowledge as opposed to sense perception.
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Philosophy The rational part of the individual human soul.
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Philosophy The principle of the cosmic mind or soul responsible for the rational order of the cosmos.
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Philosophy In Stoicism, the equivalent of Logos.
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Philosophy In Neo-Platonism, the image of the absolute good, containing the cosmos of intelligible beings.
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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).