OriginFrom Latin nīsus (“pressure, exertion”).
- uncountable, usuallyA mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
“The godly personality of a higher order, as the telos of the nisus of moral categoriality, is the sensus plenior of the nisus to a universal communalization of perspectives.”
“The immanent nisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such.”
- uncountable, usuallyThe periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
- uncountable, usuallyThe contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.
“1833, James O' Beirne, New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs, quoted in 1833, John Johnson (”
Formsnisuses(plural)