1. a song of joyful praise or exultation 2. a fervent expression of joy or praise 3. an ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo

A blogger recently described Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink this way: “a paean to intuitive thinking, [which] makes a case for ‘thin-slicing,’ paring down our information intake so we can tune out the static and make fast, sound decisions.”