hyponoia
Deficient or sluggish mental activity or imagination.
hyponoia
I noted the -noia ending and thought of paranoia.
(Not that that means anything, right?)
(I said, right?)
I also found this about hyponoia:
portokalos: what can you tell us about these--or related--words?
-gailr
(Not that that means anything, right?)
(I said, right?)
I also found this about hyponoia:
This definition would imply the need for an active imagination as well as the abilty to think abstractly. magi: where did you encounter this word with the usage you found?... Hyponoia was the term which, Plutarch tells us (De audiendis poetic 4.19), the “ancients” had used, and it implies a hidden meaning, a conjectural or suppositious sense, buried under the literal surface. Plato (Republic II. 378d), Euripides (Phoenicians 1131-33), Aristophanes (Frogs 1425-31), Xenophon (Symposium III, 6), all use hyponoia to mean what is later subsumed under allegory (Pépin, pp. 85-86). Hyponoia furthermore has a noetic character; the reader or listener will have to think his way through a semantic barrier, beyond which lies a realm of mystic knowledge. Thus Philo Judaeus may equate the hyponoia of a text with its latent theme, its mystery, its secret, its unexpressed, unseen, nonliteral, or simply intelligible meaning. ...
portokalos: what can you tell us about these--or related--words?
-gailr
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gailr: That was from dictionary.com medical dictionary.
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