thing-in-itself

Questions about thing-in-itself

What is another word for thing-in-itself?

It depends which thing-in-itself you mean. In the sense “the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception”, the synonyms are noumenon. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of thing-in-itself?

WordNet records no antonym for thing-in-itself. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for thing-in-itself come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of thing-in-itself

• Full entry for thing-in-itselfAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for thing-in-itselfWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.