Pneuma

Word PNEUMA
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈnjuːmə/

Definitions and meanings of "Pneuma"

What do we mean by pneuma?

The soul or vital spirit. noun

Breath; spirit; soul. noun

A breathing, noun

In theology, the spirit; the highest in man and the seat of the divine indwelling, as distinguished from the soul, the seat of the natural human life. noun

A neume noun

The spirit or soul noun

One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul noun

A neume.

The spirit or soul.

One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul.

Pneuma is the sweetest boy you could ever have the fortune of meeting. With a smart brain and a big heart, Pneuma will always care for you yet still pulling harmless pranks as often as possible to keep you on your toes. He likes to spend time with his sibling(s) and values family time. He has trouble staying in one spot for too long and doesn’t like to be bossed around. He will forgive you if you wrong him, and be with you until the end of his days. Urban Dictionary

A 2008 post-rock album by Moving Mountains, probably the best album ever made. They wrote it in their senior year of high school, which makes it twice as awesome. Urban Dictionary

Characterized as someone's creative force, soul, or vitality. Urban Dictionary

An awesome song by tool also from the ancient greek word for breath and has come to also mean spirit Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pneuma

The word "pneuma" in example sentences

For only when the psychical pneuma is serene, lucid, and clear does it cross over to the posterior ventricle (Publicius, Art of Memory, 28). ❋ Unknown (2008)

When we apply ourselves to seeking something with memory, this pineal gland is opened to provide access to the animate spirit psychical pneuma from the anterior to the posterior ventricle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Further, as Barfield rightly noted, the literal/figurative distinction is actually a breaking apart of what at least sometimes is an earlier holophrastic meaning -- that is, we have no reason to think that people took pneuma (=wind) as the anchor meaning and then extended the use to pneuma (=spirit); rather, they just used the word pneuma in both ways without bothering about literal and figurative senses. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And because, as we observed before, the word pneuma is variously used, Didymus, de Spiritu Sancto, lib. iii., supposeth that the prefixing of the article to doth distinguish the signification, and confine it to the Holy Ghost in the New Testament. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

Because the word pneuma, without as well as with the article so generally refers to the Spirit in the New Testament. ❋ 1797-1878 (1860)

The cosmos is pervaded by a continuous invisible substance which they called pneuma (Greek: ❋ Bell, John L. (2009)

59 If the psychical pneuma is too cold, Publicius adds, it cannot cross over to the posterior ventricle, thus rendering the memory "dull and languid." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mk. 7: 25 hes eiche to thugatrion autes pneuma akatharton. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)

The Greek πνευμα ακαθαρτης or pneuma akathartis means literally "unclean spirit." ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Greek it is called pneuma, in Polynesian mana, and in Hebrew ruah, which means "breath of life".

The biblical Greek word pneuma means wind or breath or spirit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

* hes eiche to thugatrion autes pneuma akatharton. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)

The pneuma which is a person's soul is subject to generation and destruction (Plutarch 53 C, Eusebius 53W). ❋ Baltzly, Dirk (2008)

That organ, the site of the innate heat in Galen's view, had the power of elaborating the chyle into venous blood and of imbuing it with a spirit or pneuma which is innate in all living substance, so long as it remains alive, the _natural spirits_ (πνευμα φυσικον {pneuma physikon}, _spiritus naturalis_ of the mediaevals). ❋ Various (N/A)

His teaching led to a belief in the heart as the centre of the vascular system and the chief organ of the 'pneuma' which was distributed by the blood vessels. ❋ Various (N/A)

Paela: Hey is that Pneuma over there [picking flowers]? [Atticus]: yeah! He loves bringing them to his significant other! Pneuma’s such a [great guy]. ❋ Bigneys (2022)

[You guys] heard [Moving Mountain's] Pneuma yet? I listen to it on [repeat]! ❋ Artless (2009)

When evaluating [someone's] [pneuma], you have to ask the [impact] of their art to them and to yourself. ❋ Cozmicrealities (2023)

Have you listened to Pneuma? ❋ Imabigkidnowlolxd (2022)

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