competent
Definition: (adjective) having the skill and knowledge needed for a particular task; capable
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nous
 (n  s, nous)
KEY
NOUN:
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Philosophy
- Reason and knowledge as opposed to sense perception.
- The rational part of the individual human soul.
- The principle of the cosmic mind or soul responsible for the rational order of the cosmos.
- In Stoicism, the equivalent of Logos.
- In Neo-Platonism, the image of the absolute good, containing the cosmos of intelligible beings.
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Chiefly British
Good sense; shrewdness:
"Hillela had the nous to take up with the General when he was on the up-and-up again"
(Nadine Gordimer).
ETYMOLOGY:
Greek
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