Medical Definition of Hyponoia
1. Deficient or sluggish mental activity or imagination. Origin: hypo-+ G. Noeo, to think (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyponoia
Literary usage of Hyponoia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1844)
"We confess that we have not the hyponoia to penetrate this " hyponoia;" that we
must have better microscopic eyes than those we now possess, ..."
2. Contributions to the Science of Mythology by Friedrich Max Müller (1897)
"The hyponoia of Mythology. All this was felt by ancient philosophers also, though
perhaps not so keenly as by ourselves. And however they might differ in ..."
3. The Methodist Review (1844)
"hyponoia; or, Thoughts on a Spiritual Understanding of the Apocalypse, or Book
of Revelation. With some Remarks upon the Parou- sia, or Second Coming of the ..."
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