THING-IN-ITSELF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thing-in-itself mean? 

• THING-IN-ITSELF (noun)
  The noun THING-IN-ITSELF has 1 sense:

1. the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception

  Familiarity information: THING-IN-ITSELF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THING-IN-ITSELF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

noumenon; thing-in-itself

Hypernyms ("thing-in-itself" is a kind of...):

cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)