NOUMENAL

  

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NOUMENAL

Definition: NOUMENAL

NOUMENAL

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "NOUMENAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1785. (references)


Usage Frequency: NOUMENAL

"NOUMENAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NOUMENAL" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Rhyming with "NOUMENAL"

Words rhyming with "NOUMENAL" (pronounced 'Nou"me*nal'): Abactinal, Abhominal, Actinal, Adnominal, Adrenal, Affinal, Agminal, Altitudinal, Amblygonal, Ammonal, Anal, Annal, Antennal, Aptitudinal, Archidiaconal, Arsenal, Asternal, Attitudinal, Autumnal, Binal, Binominal, Buccinal, Cacuminal, Caninal, Carnal, Cerebro-spinal, Circinal, Clinodiagonal, Coeternal, Communal, Concubinal, Consuetudinal, Conterminal, Crinal, Crumenal, Culminal, Decagonal, Decanal, Destinal, Diaconal, Dihexagonal, Discriminal, Diuturnal, Duodenal, Embryonal, Enneagonal, Epiclinal, Episternal, Equidiurnal, Equinal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: NOUMENAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-n-n-o-u"

-1 letter: noumena.

-2 letters: nounal.

-3 letters: alone, amole, annul, anole, leman, lemon, lumen, melon, nomen, numen, oleum, ulema, ulnae, unman.

-4 letters: aeon, alme, aloe, alum, amen, anon, elan, enol, lame, lane, lean, leno, loam, loan, lone, luna, lune, male, mane, mano, maul, maun, meal, mean, meno, menu, meou, moan, mola, mole, moue, mule, muon, name, nema.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-n-n-o-u"
 

+2 letters: monumental.

 

+3 letters: mononuclear, unemotional.

 

+4 letters: inconsumable, magniloquent, mononuclears, mononucleate, monumentally, motoneuronal, nomenclature, nonmercurial, nonmolecular, nonnumerical, ultramontane, uncomplacent, uneconomical, unhandsomely.

 

+5 letters: anomalousness, intercommunal, magniloquence, malfunctioned, mononucleated, monumentality, monumentalize, neurohormonal, nomenclatural, nomenclatures, noncumulative, nonhomosexual, nonjudgmental, nonmeaningful, nonmeasurable, nonnumericals, ultramontanes, unconformable, unemotionally, unmentionable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NOUMENAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 4F 55 4D 45 4E 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ---    ..-    --    .    -.    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001111 01010101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#79 &#85 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 0055 004D 0045 004E 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4849554739483546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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