noetic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: no=et=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

noetic, a. [Gr. , fr. to perceive, mind, intellect.].

 Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual.  [1913 Webster]
"I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

noetic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of the intellect.
2 purely intellectual or abstract.
3 given to intellectual speculation.
--n. (in sing. or pl.) the science of the intellect.

Etymology

Gk noetikos f. noetos intellectual f. noeo apprehend

THESAURUS

noetic

bright, cerebral, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, discursive, endopsychic, excogitating, ideational, ideative, intellectual, intelligent, internal, introspective, knowing, meditating, meditative, mental, museful, musing, noological, not so dumb, pensive, phrenic, pondering, prehensive, psychic, psychologic, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, sane, sensible, serious, sober, sophic, speculative, spiritual, strong-minded, subjective, thinking, thought, thoughtful, understanding, wistful