noosphere

Meaning

Noun

• The sphere of human reason, thought and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.

Origin

• Borrowed from French noosphère, from Ancient Greek νόος ("mind, spirit") + Ancient Greek σφαῖρα ("ball, globe"), developed and perhaps coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadsky, in analogy to atmosphere, biosphere etc.
• Surface analysis is nous + -sphere.