noumenality means the quality of being noumenal. It carries an Arena rating of 957, earned across 27 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, noumenality ranks #42 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #1,083 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #5,736 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #7,163 of 17,151 for The Improbable.
Why “noumenality” is a great word
The intrinsic, unknowable reality of a thing as it exists independently of any perception. From noumenal (from noumenon, from Greek nooumenon, neuter passive present participle of noein 'to perceive, think') + the noun-forming suffix -ity (from Latin -itas, denoting state or condition). Unlike phenomenality (which concerns the world of sensory appearance) or actuality (which denotes concrete existence within experience), noumenality is the withdrawn and inaccessible substrate posited behind the veil. It is the silent reality of the mountain before it is colored by the mind's eye, the mute essence of a song unheard, the untouched book on the shelf whose story exists only as potential—a philosophical haunting by the forever-unknowable guest at the feast of consciousness.
Etymology
From noumenal + -ity.
noun
- The quality of being noumenal.
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