Noumenal vs Evanescent - What's the difference?

Noumenal is a related term of evanescent.

As adjectives the difference between noumenal and evanescent

is that noumenal is (philosophy|especially kantianism) of or pertaining to the noumenon or the realm of things as they are in themselves while evanescent is evanescent.

noumenal

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Adjective

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(philosophy, especially Kantianism) Of or pertaining to the noumenon or the realm of things as they are in themselves.

*1878 , James Sully, "The Question of Visual Perception in Germany," Mind , vol. 3, no. 10, p. 193,

*:We may here distinguish between two kinds of reality, phenomenal or relative, and noumenal or absolute.

*2003 , Jay Garfield and Graham Priest, "N?g?rjuna and the Limits of Thought," Philosophy East and West , vol. 53, no. 1, p. 3,

*:When Kant says that it is impossible to know anything about, or apply any categories to, the noumenal realm, he would seem to be doing just what cannot be done.

Antonyms

* phenomenal

evanescent

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Vanishing, disappearing.

* 1837 , , "Footprints on the Sea-Shore" in Twice-Told Tales :

The sea was each little bird's great playmate. . . . In their airy flutterings, they seemed to rest on the evanescent spray.

* 1911 , , Initials Only , ch. 19:

. . . making the ideal of my foolish girlhood seem as unsubstantial and evanescent as a dream in the glowing noontide.

Ephemeral, momentary, fleeting.

* 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 46:

In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent .

Barely there; almost imperceptible.

* 1888 , , "The Withered Arm":

Her face too was fresh in colour, but it was of a totally different quality—soft and evanescent , like the light under a heap of rose-petals.

* 1907 , , The Secret Agent , ch. 7:

While he was speaking the hands on the face of the clock behind the great man's back—a heavy, glistening affair of massive scrolls in the same dark marble as the mantelpiece, and with a ghostly, evanescent tick—had moved through the space of seven minutes.

* 1916 , , Twilight in Italy , ch. 1:

And I was pale, and clear, and evanescent , like the light, and they were dark, and close, and constant, like the shadow.

Synonyms

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