nous [
nus]
nous[ noun ]- common sense
<noun.cognition>
she has great social nous
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
<noun.cognition>
his mind wandered
I couldn't get his words out of my head
Nous \Nous\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. noy^s mind.]
1. Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.
2. (Philos.) The reason; the highest intellect; God regarded
as the World Reason.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- What was needed at the Treasury was political nous, an ability to pick out what would work from what would not.
- It was: Vous etes le microbe dont nous avons besoin.
- The French offered Nous n'allons pas nous noyer dans la morosite du bouc-emissaire a la derive. 'Hmm.'