Usually means: Essence unknowable by sensory experience.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. noumenon: Merriam-Webster
  2. noumenon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. noumenon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. noumenon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. noumenon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Noumenon, noumenon: Wordnik
  7. noumenon: Wiktionary
  8. noumenon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. noumenon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Noumenon, noumenon: Dictionary.com
  11. noumenon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Noumenon (disambiguation), Noumenon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Noumenon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. noumenon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. noumenon: Rhymezone
  16. Noumenon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. noumenon: FreeDictionary.org
  18. noumenon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. noumenon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. noumenon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. noumenon: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. noumenon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See noumena as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (noumenon)

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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