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Latin
Noun
noumen
- Early variant of numen.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Noumenon. Doublet of noumenon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɔw.mɛn/
- Rhymes: -ɔwmɛn
- Syllabification: nou‧men
Noun
noumen m inan
- (Kantian philosophy) noumenon, thing-in-itself (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization)
- Synonyms: noumenon, rzecz sama w sobie
- (Platonic philosophy) noumenon (essence of a thing, as opposed to a phenomenon, knowable only by reason)
- Synonym: noumenon
Declension
Further reading
- noumen in Polish dictionaries at PWN