dianoetic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διανοητικός (dianoētikós, “pertaining to thinking”), from διανοητός (dianoētós), verbal adjective of διανοέεσθαι (dianoéesthai, “to think”), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + νοέειν (noéein, “to think, suppose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪənəʊˈɛtɪk/

Adjective

dianoetic (comparative more dianoetic, superlative most dianoetic)

1. Pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:

     The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.

Synonyms

• discursive

Antonyms

• intuitive

Related terms

• dianoialogy
• dianoiology

Translations

pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual

• Italian: dianoetico (it)
• Russian: дискурсивный (ru) (diskursivnyj)

Anagrams

• actidione, conidiate, oceanitid, tocainide