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–noun, plural -na

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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: 1790–1800; < Gk nooúmenon a thing being perceived, n. use of neut. of prp. passive of noeǐn to perceive; akin to nous

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n. pl. nou·me·na (-nə)
In the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is in itself independent of the mind, as opposed to a phenomenon. Also called thing-in-itself.

[German, from Greek nooumenon, from neuter present passive participle of noein, to perceive by thought, from nous, mind.]

nou'men·al (-mə-nəl) adj.

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1796, "object of intellectual intuition" (opposed to a phenomenon), term introduced by Kant, from Gk. noumenon "that which is perceived," neut. passive prp. of noeo "I perceive by the mind" (from noos "mind"), with passive suffix -menos.

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noumenon
noun
the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception

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Nou"me*non\, n. [NL. fr. Gr. ? the thing perceived, p. pr. pass. of ? to perceive, ? the mind.] (Metaph.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.

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