[noo-muh-non] 
[-nuh] . | 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. |
| nou·me·non (nōō'mə-nŏn') 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. |