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Anoetic
(gcide) | Anoetic \An`o*et"ic\, a. [Gr. ? unthinkable; ? priv. + ?
perceptible, thinkable.]
1. Unthinkable. [Rare]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Psychol.) Not subject to conscious attention; having an
indefinite, relatively passive, conscious being;
characteristic of the "fringe" or "margin" of
consciousness.
[1913 Webster]
Presentation considered as having an existence
relatively independent of thought, may be called
sentience, or anoetic consciousness. Thought and
sentience are fundamentally distinct mental
functions. --G. F. Stout.
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dianoetic
(encz) | dianoetic, adj: |
Dianoetic
(gcide) | Dianoetic \Di`a*no*et"ic\, a. [Gr. ?; dia` through + ? to
revolve in the mind.] (Metaph.)
Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.
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I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation
of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
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dianoetic
(wn) | dianoetic
adj 1: proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather
than intuition [syn: dianoetic, discursive] |
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