noetic

adjective

Definition of noeticnext
as in mental

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Recent Examples of noetic Spector would reportedly play Professor Robert Langdon opposite Rebecca Hall as love interest/noetic scientist Katherine Solomon. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 July 2026 What To Know According to details shared by Doubleday, the book opens in Prague, where Langdon plans to attend a lecture by noetic scientist Katherine Solomon. — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noetic
  1. mental
  2. thinking
  3. rational
  4. internal
  5. psychological
  6. intellectual
  7. cognitive
  8. brilliant
Adjective
  • If the map of New York City would be the map of a cell… all mental diseases are all around Times Square.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Those who are attacked are forever changed — many go on to suffer mental and emotional hardships.
    — John Chiarello, New York Daily News, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of mental
Adjective
  • Humor can release the writer from values of the past, along with judgment and disapproval, and instead, humor can become the very conduit for re-thinking events.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Nibert loved the free-thinking spirit of the village and its college.
    — Keith BieryGolick, Cincinnati.com, 28 Aug. 2019
Definition of thinking
Adjective
  • Carlisle is entitled to make fun of her colleagues for overestimating the power of rational argument and for preferring false simplicity to complicated truth.
    — Kieran Setiya, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The calm, rational response to the Dallas Cowboys’ latest embarrassing performance is to burn it down.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of rational
Adjective
  • Stearns also cited internal candidates that can fill in at second base.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • So many others – not all but many – feeling the squeeze of instant satisfaction from itchy fan bases and twitchy administrations, or the march of their own internal professional clocks, are opting to fast-track experience.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of internal
Adjective
  • His second project is the psychological thriller NDA opposite Rachel Zegler and Amy Ryan.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2026
  • For example, research has linked exposure to flooding, wildfire and ecosystem changes with elevated risks of illnesses, psychological distress and chronic stress.
    — John C. Ejiogu, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of psychological
Adjective
  • Alexandria was a cultural and intellectual hub for a millennium until a torrent of earthquakes and tsunamis pulled its coast underwater.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
  • But the more serious parts of this big business-government-intellectual coalition got to work finding other emergencies to justify not only continuing that kind of wartime federal control, but accelerating it.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of intellectual
Adjective
  • Stronger social connections are linked to living longer, feeling happier and lowering the risk of cognitive decline later in life.
    — Richard Sima, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Bone loading boosted its circulating levels, while injections of the protein reduced several signs of aging and improved cognitive and physical performance in older mice.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of cognitive
Adjective
  • Badgley most recently starred as Joe Goldberg in Netflix’s You, a brilliant bookstore manager who was also a serial killer.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The previous year, comet Tempel-Tuttle swept around the sun and was accompanied later that year by an unexpected surge of Leonid activity, with brilliant meteors darting across the sky at one or two per minute as seen from Hawaii and Australia.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of brilliant

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“Noetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noetic. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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