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noësis

noësis is the alternative spelling of noesis.

Meaning of noesis

Noun

noesis (countable and uncountable, plural noeses)

  1. Cognition, the functioning of intellect.
  2. (Greek) The exercise of reason.
  3. (metaphysics) The consciousness component of noetics, which concerns the duality of noesis and noema.
    • Husserl calls the noesis the meaning-giving element of the act, and the noema he calls the meaning given in the act."2003, Denis Fisette, Husserl's Logical Investigations Reconsidered

Forms of noësis

pluralnoëses

Questions about noësis

What is noësis the alternative spelling of?
Noësis is the alternative spelling of noesis.

Words near noësis in the dictionary

  1. nozzles
  2. noêsis
  3. noël
  4. noëls
  5. noëses
  6. noësis
  7. noöne
  8. noösphere
  9. noöspheres
  10. noötropic
  11. noötropics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: noësis (page history and authors); noesis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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