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noumenon nou·me·non

Spelling: [noo-muh-non]

IPA: /ˈnu məˌnɒn/

Noumenon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in noumenon (emnnnoou).

Definitions for noumenon

noun

1. the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.
2. a thing in itself, as distinguished from a phenomenon or thing as it appears.
3. Kantianism. something that can be the object only of a purely intellectual, nonsensuous intuition.

Origin of noumenon

1790-1800; Greek nooúmenon a thing being perceived, noun use of neuter of present participle passive of noeîn to perceive; akin to nous

Examples for noumenon

What signified their endless pages about dualism and monism, about phenomenon and noumenon?

He called it the "noumenon," the "real correlate of matter," and pluralized it as "things in themselves."

The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning—which is a phenomenon.

Humanity is ever seeking the Reality—the noumenon, which we intuitively postulate as behind the phenomena of Nature.

If we wish to call this object a noumenon, because the representation of it is non-sensuous, we are at liberty to do so.

The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.

Being a "noumenon," it is not a phenomenon; being a "thing in itself," it is not what things are to us.

The conception of a noumenon is therefore merely a limitative conception and therefore only of negative use.

But then there is the Ding an sich, the noumenon, or Kantian equivalent for the substance of the soul.

But he insisted, as firmly as Herbert Spencer has since done, that the "noumenon" is "unknown and unknowable."