Is it a phenomenon, or a noumenon?
Source: tatoeba (2074597)
Noumenon
//ˈnuːmənɒn//
Synonyms for "noumenon" (14 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
2 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نُومِينُون noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Catalan
1 entries- noümen noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Czech
1 entries- noumenon noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Estonian
2 entries- noumen noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
- noumenon noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Finnish
1 entries- noumeeni noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
French
1 entries- noumène noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Galician
1 entries- nóumeno noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
German
1 entries- Noumenon noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Greek
1 entries- νοούμενο noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Italian
1 entries- noumeno noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Japanese
1 entries- ヌーメノン noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Korean
1 entries- 누메논 noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Lithuanian
1 entries- noumenas noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Polish
3 entries- noumen noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
- noumenon noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
- rzecz sama w sobie noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Portuguese
1 entries- númeno noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Romanian
1 entries- numen noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Russian
1 entries- ноу́мен noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- noumènōn noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
- ноумѐно̄н noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Spanish
1 entries- noúmeno noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Turkish
1 entries- numen noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ноу́мен noun (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization — see also thing-in-itself)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The conception of a noumenon, that is, of a thing which must be cogitated not as an object of sense, but as a thing in itself (solely through the pure understanding), is not self-contradictory, for we are not entitled to maintain that sensibility is the only possible mode of intuition.
Source: tatoeba (12192164)
The final result of Kant's philosophy, expressed in the concisest terms, was the proposition, so humiliating to human cognition, but, at the same time, so fertile in consequences, that we can know only phenomena, or the outward appearances of things, but not the noumenon, or the thing in itself.
Source: wiktionary
We have no specific concept of the noumenon, but think of it merely as whatever the object may be apart from the manner in which our knowledge exhibits it.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.