νοῦν

Detailed Definition

• 1the mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining
• 2the intellectual faculty, the understanding
• 3reason in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, the faculty of perceiving divine things, of recognising goodness and of hating evil
• 4the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially
• 5a particular mode of thinking and judging, i.e., thoughts, feelings, purposes, desires