nous

noun3

1. •
   The mind or intellect, faculty for rationality or reason using the necessary common sense or awareness.

   • I feel the will to roam, to learn By test, experience, nous, That fire is hot and ocean deep, And wolves carnivorous. — 1900
2. •
   Common sense; practical intelligence.

   • There is nothing original in absent-mindedness. True originality lies elsewhere. Really, the lower classes have no nous. — 1907
3. •
   The divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.