noocracy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νόος (nóos, “mind”) + -cracy.

Noun

noocracy (uncountable)

  1. (neologism, rare) Rule by intellect; a government which weds power with intelligence.
    • 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo‎[1]:
      Similar to Plato’s “government of the wise,” a noocracy would be, in the words of “biosphere” popularizer Vladimir Vernadsky, “a social and political system based on the priority of the human mind.”
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