nous vs knowledge

nous and knowledge both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nous	Yes	No	No	No
knowledge	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, knowledge is a hypernym of nous; that is, knowledge is a word with a broader meaning than nous:

nous: that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
knowledge: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Other hypernyms of nous include cognition, noesis.

nous (noun)	knowledge (noun)
that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason	the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
common sense