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- DictionaryPneu·ma/ˈno͞omə/
noun
- 1. (in Stoic thought) the vital spirit, soul, or creative force of a person.
The meaning of PNEUMA is soul, spirit; specifically : holy spirit. How to use pneuma in a sentence.
In Stoic philosophy, pneuma is the concept of the "breath of life," a mixture of the elements air (in motion) and fire (as warmth). For the Stoics, pneuma is the active, generative principle that organizes both the individual and the cosmos.
Pneuma definition: the vital spirit; the soul.. See examples of PNEUMA used in a sentence.
pneu·ma. 1. Air or an all-pervading fiery essence in the air (which today would be identified with oxygen), which was the creative and animating spirit of the universe; drawn into the body through the lungs, it generated and sustained the innate heat in the left ventricle of the heart and was distributed by the arteries to the brain and all ...
noun. The soul or spirit. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. (music) A neume. Wiktionary. (Gnosticism) One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul. Wiktionary. Other Word Forms of Pneuma. Noun. Singular: pneuma. Plural: pneumas, pneumata. Origin of Pneuma.
The notion that wind or breath —pneuma — accounted for the functions of living things persisted in philosophical and medical accounts of organisms, sometimes alongside the notion of an immaterial soul or psychē.
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun pneuma. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
