noumenal

American  

[noo-muh-nl] / ˈnu mə nl /

adjective

1. ontic.

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Other Word Forms

• nonnoumenal adjective
• nonnoumenally adverb
• noumenalism noun
• noumenalist noun
• noumenality noun
• noumenally adverb

Etymology

Origin of noumenal

First recorded in 1795–1805; noumen(on) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

If the absolute noumenal Power beyond all phenomena be unknowable, it cannot contain less, but must contain more than all the attributes of the material and spiritual creation which has proceeded thence.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

It is a feature of the phenomenon or mental product, i.e. of the noumenal datum as invested with a category of thought.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

For it teaches the student that to comprehend the noumenal, he must identify himself with Nature.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

It is not to be conceived of as anything occult or noumenal, but merely as a special mode of the uniformity of Nature or experience.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

Comte was never willing to face the fact that the very existence of knowledge has a noumenal as well as a phenomenal side.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell