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things-in-themselves

things-in-themselves is the plural of thing-in-itself.

Meaning of thing-in-itself

Noun

thing-in-itself (plural things-in-themselves)

  1. A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.
    Synonyms:
    noumenon
    Antonyms:
    phenomenon

Questions about things-in-themselves

What is things-in-themselves the plural of?
Things-in-themselves is the plural of thing-in-itself.

Words near things-in-themselves in the dictionary

  1. things
  2. things in action
  3. things in possession
  4. things of nothing
  5. things that go bump in the night
  6. things-in-themselves
  7. thingstead
  8. thingsteads
  9. Thingujam
  10. thingum
  11. thingumabob

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