Tuesday word: Noetic

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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

<b>Noetic</b> <i>(adjective)

noetic [noh-et-ik]</i>

<b>adjective</b>

1. of or relating to the mind.

2. originating in or apprehended by the reason.

<b>Origin:</b> First recorded in 1645–55; from Greek noētikós “intelligent, intellectual” equivalent to nóē(sis) noesis + -tikos -tic

<b>Example Sentences</b>

Navy and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973, organized to sponsor research in the nature of consciousness.

<b><i>From Reuters • Feb. 5, 2016</i></b>

Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Sausalito, California, which pursues such topics as ESP and the mind.

<i><b>From Time Magazine Archive</b></i>

Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences helped to fund S.R.I.'s Geller research, which was conducted largely by Puthoff and Russell Targ, who happens to be Editor Targ's son.

<b><i>From Time Magazine Archive</i></b>

Thus Plato and Plotinus call "Noetic work" that which the Yogi and the Shrotriya term Vidya.

<i><b>From Five Years of Theosophy by Various</b></i>

Noetic quality.—Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical states seem to those who experience them to be also states of knowledge.

<b><i>From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William</i></b>