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pneuma: pneuma n. The soul or vital spirit. (contemporary meaning) Pneuma (πνεύμα) is an ancient Greek word for “breath,” given various technical meanings by medical writers and philosophers of antiquity, including: Pneuma, “air in motion, breath, wind,” equivalent in the material monism of Anaximenes to aer (ἀήρ, “air”) as the element from which all else originated; the earliest extant occurrence of the term Pneuma (ancient medicine), the circulating air that is necessary for the systemic functioning of vital organs, according to various medical writers of antiquity The connate pneuma of Aristotle, the warm mobile “air” that in the sperm transmits the capacity for locomotion and certain sensations to the offspring; see also Vital heat and Spontaneous generation: Aristotle Pneuma (Stoic), the Stoic philosophical concept of the animating warm breath, in both the cosmos and the body Romantics long for meaning. And they find more of it in a dot than others find in an entire book. In fact, they seek out meaning so much that they will create it out of thin air. Air — which is otherwise known as breath, or pneuma. …This is the skin of a romantic.

pneuma:

pneuma n. The soul or vital spirit. (contemporary meaning)

Pneuma (πνεύμα) is an ancient Greek word for “breath,” given various technical meanings by medical writers and philosophers of antiquity, including:

  • Pneuma, “air in motion, breath, wind,” equivalent in the material monism of Anaximenes to aer (ἀήρ, “air”) as the element from which all else originated; the earliest extant occurrence of the term
  • Pneuma (ancient medicine), the circulating air that is necessary for the systemic functioning of vital organs, according to various medical writers of antiquity
  • The connate pneuma of Aristotle, the warm mobile “air” that in the sperm transmits the capacity for locomotion and certain sensations to the offspring; see also Vital heat and Spontaneous generation: Aristotle
  • Pneuma (Stoic), the Stoic philosophical concept of the animating warm breath, in both the cosmos and the body

Romantics long for meaning. And they find more of it in a dot than others find in an entire book. In fact, they seek out meaning so much that they will create it out of thin air. Air — which is otherwise known as breath, or pneuma. …This is the skin of a romantic.