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語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: nous, IPA: /naʊs/
• 韻: -aʊs

• (米国発音) enPR: no͞os, IPA: /nuːs/

名詞

nous (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The mind or intellect, faculty for rationality or reason using the necessary common sense or awareness.
   • 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. (neoplatonism) The divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.
3. Common sense; practical intelligence.

   to demonstrate nous

   • 1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I (Cambridge), page 13:

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

   • 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:

     The emerging African elite felt little affection for the wahindi, seen as tight-fisted, snooty and brazenly colour-conscious, but its members knew they needed its business nous.

関連する語

アナグラム

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