noosphere
/ˈnoʊ.əsfɪɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
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2
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7
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Meaning
noun
The sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.
Example Sentences
- "I used to have a pretty clear idea of God. Now we have these new theologians who say God’s inside here not up there or he’s an impersonal noosphere and the anthropomorphic image is out. Three unpersons in one anthropomorphic noosphere."
- "Finally, human beings reproduce themselves mentally through exchanges with cultural and symbolic environments[…] These relational exchanges are embedded in the traditions and institutions of a particular society in such a way that that society can reproduce itself on a cultural level, can reproduce itself in the noosphere."
- "[…] Therefore, high capacity nodes will experience greater latency from the rest of the noosphere, and the intelligences that inhabit them will likely be more individualistic."
- "This creates a pattern of homesteading in the noosphere that rather resembles that of settlers spreading into a physical frontier—not random, but like a diffusion-limited fractal."
- "The noosphere admits human cognition as a part of the environment of the Earth."
Etymology
Borrowed from French noosphère, from Ancient Greek νόος (nóos, “mind, spirit”) + Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), developed and perhaps coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadsky, in analogy to atmosphere, biosphere etc. By surface analysis, nous (“mind”) + -sphere.
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnoʊ.əsfɪɚ/
- British English: /ˈnəʊ.əsfɪə/
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