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Definition of Anoetic
1. a. Unthinkable.
Definition of Anoetic
1. feeling without understanding [adj]
Medical Definition of Anoetic
1. Lacking the power of comprehension, as in severe and profound levels of mental retardation. Origin: G. Anoesia, from a-priv. + noos, perception (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anoetic
| anodons anodyne anodynes anodynia anodynic anodynous anoeses anoesis anoestra anoestri | anoestrous anoestrus anoetic (current term) anoia anoikic anoikis anoil anoiled anoiling anoils | anoint anointed anointeds anointer |
Literary usage of Anoetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Philosophical Criticism and Construction by Sydney Herbert Mellone (1897)
"In short, as we have already said, the distinction of formal and material feeling
stands or falls with that of noetic and anoetic consciousness ; whatever ..."
2. Analytic Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1896)
"Presentation considered as having an existence relatively independent of thought,
may be called Sentience, or anoetic consciousness. ..."
3. Lectures on the Experimental Psychology of the Thought-processes by Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"Now the difference in feeling and conation, as between the noetic and the anoetic
consciousnesses, is obviously a difference only of degree; ..."
4. The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati by Antonio Rosmini (1882)
"So long as we know ideal being merely as such, we have only an anoetic knowledge
of it; whereas, when we know it as possessing the three attributes of ..."
5. A Study of Lapses by Henry Heath Bawden (1900)
"Lapses we have seen to be products of involuntary attention or subliminal
association, what GF Stout calls anoetic or subconscious mental life. ..."
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