Definition of Anoesis

1. Noun. (psychology) The reception of impressions or sensations (by the brain) without any intellectual understanding. ¹

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Definition of Anoesis

1. feeling without understanding [n ANOESES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anoesis

anodizations
anodize
anodized
anodizes
anodizing
anodon
anodons
anodyne
anodynes
anodynia
anodynic
anodynous
anoeses
anoesis (current term)
anoestra
anoestri
anoestrous
anoestrus
anoetic
anoia
anoikic
anoikis
anoil
anoiled

Literary usage of Anoesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Special Therapeutics According to Homoeopathic Principles by Franz Hartmann (1857)
"We commence this classification with the consideration of AMENTIA IN GENERAL, as the TYPE of the first class. GENERAL AMENTIA, LOSS OF WITS. anoesis. ..."

2. Lectures on the Experimental Psychology of the Thought-processes by Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"... feeling is still recognisable in anoesis as feeling, conation as conation; we are, in so far, upon the second horn of the dilemma. ..."

3. Psychological Principles by James Ward (1919)
"... and has the theoretical usefulness of limiting conceptions generally. But relative anoesis suffices here. Suppose, then, we have : (a) item, ..."

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