Usually means: Essence independent of human perception.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. thing-in-itself: Merriam-Webster
  2. thing-in-itself: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. thing-in-itself, thing-in-itself: Collins English Dictionary
  4. thing-in-itself: Vocabulary.com
  5. thing-in-itself: Wiktionary
  6. thing-in-itself: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. thing-in-itself: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. thing-in-itself: Dictionary.com
  9. Thing-in-itself: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. thing-in-itself: Rhymezone
  11. thing-in-itself: FreeDictionary.org
  12. thing-in-itself: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. thing-in-itself: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thing-in-itself: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thing-in-itself: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See things-in-themselves as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thing-in-itself)

noun:  (from Kantian philosophy on) A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.

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