noos

Noun

nous (uncountable)

1. The mind or intellect, faculty for rationality or reason using the necessary common sense or awareness.
   • I feel the will to roam, to learn
     By test, experience, nous,
     That fire is hot and ocean deep,
     And wolves carnivorous.1900, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes
2. The divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.
3. Common sense; practical intelligence.
   • to demonstrate nous