English Explanatory Dictionary

noegenesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The acquisition of new knowledge from observation and experience, and from inferring relationships between known things.

Word forms

noegenesis

Etymology

Coined around 1923 by Charles Spearman in The nature of intelligence and the principles of cognition, from noetic + -genesis.

Derived words

noegenetic
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