Nous is intelligence or common sense. Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications.

What is the meaning of the French word nous?

pronoun. ourselves [pronoun] used as the object of a verb when the person speaking and other people are the object of an action etc they perform. We saw ourselves in the mirror. us [pronoun] (used as the object of a verb or preposition) the speaker or writer plus one or more other people.

What kind of word is nous?

The mind or intellect, reason. In neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation. Common sense; practical intelligence.