anoeticadj.
1. Not able to be thought; unthinkable. rare.
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1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic 93 The conversion of the incogitable (the anoetic) into the cogitable (the noetic).
2. Psychol. Relating to or characterized by anoesis (anoesis n. at Derivatives).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > states of consciousness > [adjective] > having sensation without thought
anoetic1896
1896 G. F. Stout Analyt. Psychol. I. 51 Objective reference supervening on purely anoetic experience would be a completely new psychical fact.
1916 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. (ed. 10) Suppl. i. 360 Anoetic sentience; a mere feeling or sentience involving no objective reference.
Derivatives
anoesis n. /ænəʊˈiːsɪs/ a hypothetical state of consciousness in which there is sensation but no thought.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 63 Such a consciousness has been happily named anoetic. Whether or no it actually exists is another matter... But relative anoesis suffices here.
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