metanoia
/ˌmɛtəˈnɔɪə/noun
metanoia is a noun meaning “A fundamental change of mind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-T-A-N-O-I-A, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of metanoia is metanoias.
What does metanoia mean?
noun
- 1
A fundamental change of mind.
- 2
A spiritual or religious conversion.
- 3
A fundamental change in the human personality.
- 4
A device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce metanoia?
- /ˌmɛtəˈnɔɪə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of metanoia
- metanoias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is metanoia?
Metanoia appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does metanoia come from?
From Ancient Greek μετάνοια (metánoia, “repentance”, literally “afterthought”), a compound of μετά (metá, “after, with”) and νοέω (noéō, “to perceive, to think”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).