nous-, nou-, noe-, noes-, noet-, -noia +

1. Absence of recognition or knowledge: "The benign expression on her listener's faces suggested a state of anoesis, in that information was being presented to the mind but not being mentally processed or understood."
2. A condition in which someone has no acknowledgement of objects: "Her anoesis showed a state of mind that consisted of pure sensations or emotions but no recognition and understanding of what was going on."

A reference to the lack of any ability to concentrate: "Due to severe worries about repaying his university loan, the student found he was experiencing an anoetic condition and could not focus on his studies."

1. Self-preoccupation to such a degree that no attention is paid to the outside world.
2. Autism.

1. Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or an argument rather than intuition.
2. Referring to the intellectual functions, especially to reasoning.

The mental faculty used in discursive reasoning.

A form of paranoid delusion that someone is loved by another person.

The delusion is more nearly one of romantic or spiritual love, rather than physical. The object is usually someone who is of a higher status or who is famous, but it may be a complete stranger.

The unfounded conviction that the patient's spouse or lover is unfaithful: "Such jealous-type paranoias can sometimes be so overwhelming that they make the relationships of such patients impossible."

Paranoia in which the patient institutes or threatens to institute legal action because of an imagined persecution.

Referring to thought or the operation of the mind.

Referring to the understanding.

The science of understanding; intellectual science.

The operation of the intellect; cognition.

1. Associated with or requiring the use of the mind.
2. Characteristic of, coming from, or understood by the human mind.

The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception.

A reference to an object of human inquiry, understanding or cognition.

The term is generally used in contrast with, or in relation to, "phenomenon", which refers to appearances, or objects of the senses. That which is perceived but not tangible.