different between neoplatonism vs nous

Romanian

Etymology

From French néo-platonisme

Noun

neoplatonism n (uncountable)

1. Neoplatonism

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• noos

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (noûs) or ???? (nóos, “mind”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nous, IPA^(key): /na?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

• (US) enPR: noo?s, IPA^(key): /nu?s/

Noun

nous (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional
   • 1900, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes

     I feel the will to roam, to learn

     By test, experience, nous,

     That fire is hot and ocean deep,

     And wolves carnivorous.

2. In Neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.
3. Common sense; practical intelligence.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 19]:

     There is nothing original in absent-mindedness. True originally lies elsewhere. Really, the lower classes have no nous.

Related terms

• paranoia
• noesis
• noogenesis
• noology
• noosphere
• nootropic

Translations

Anagrams

• Onsu, Osun, Suon, UNOS, Unos, onus, ouns

Catalan

Etymology 1

Adjective

nous

1. masculine plural of nou (new)

Etymology 2

Noun

nous

1. plural of nou (nines)

Etymology 3

Noun

nous

1. plural of nou (nuts)

Etymology 4

Verb

nous

1. second-person singular present indicative form of noure

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu/
• Homophones: noue, noues, nouent

Etymology 1

From Middle French nous, from Old French nous, nos, from Latin n?s, from Proto-Italic *n?s.

In several dialects of French, je may be used instead of nous (j'allons instead of nous allons, je voyons instead of nous voyons etc.), this use was perceived as peasant-like and thus often mocked since the 15th century (for example by Molière). However this use survived and spread in various regions of the so-called domaine d'oïl (linguistic area starting above Auvergne where the oïl varieties of Romance developed from the 4th or 5th century). The regions of France where this use of je (from Latin ego "I") instead of nous, nos (from Latin nos, "we") was recorded are Normandy, Romance-speaking Brittany, Poitou and Anjou, Champagne, Ardennes, Bourgogne and Franche-Comté, Dauphiné, Berry, Touraine, Orléanais, Bourbonnais, Maine.See cognates in regional languages in France: Angevin je and nous, Bourbonnais-Berrichon je and nous, Bourguignon i and nous, Champenois ju and nous, Franc-Comtois i and nôs, Gallo je and nouz, Lorrain nos, Norman je and nos, Orléanais je and nous, Picard nos, Poitevin-Saintongeais jhe and nous, Tourangeau je and nos, Franco-Provençal nos, Occitan nosautres (Provençal nousautes), Catalan nosaltres, Corsican noi.

Pronoun

nous

1. The plural personal pronoun in the first person:
   1. (subject pronoun) we.
   2. (object pronoun) us, to us.

Derived terms

• entre nous
• nous autres

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ???? (noûs) or ???? (nóos, “mind”).

Noun

nous m (plural nous)

1. The nous, (divine) reason in philosophy.

Further reading

• “nous” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French nous.

Pronoun

nous

1. we (subject pronoun)
2. ourselves (reflexive pronoun)

Descendants

• French: nous

Old French

Etymology

From Latin n?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nus/

Pronoun

nous

1. Alternative form of nos

Picard

Etymology

From Old French nous.

Pronoun

nous

1. we