Noema (plural: noemata) derives from the Greek word νόημα meaning thought or what is thought about.Edmund Husserl used noema as a technical term in phenomenology to stand for the object or content of a thought, judgment, or perception, but its precise meaning in his work has remained a matter of controversy.

Husserl's noema

In Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology (1913), Husserl introduced the terms "noema" and "noesis" to designate correlated elements of the structure of any intentional act — for example, an act of perceiving, or judging, or remembering (see Intentionality):

"Corresponding to all points to the manifold data of the real (reelle) noetic content, there is a variety of data displayable in really pure (wirklicher reiner) intuition, and in a correlative 'noematic content,' or briefly 'noema' — terms which we shall henceforth be continually using."

Every intentional act has noetic content (or a noesis — from the Greek nous, "mind"). This noetic content, to which the noema corresponds, is that mental act-process (e.g., an act of liking, of judging, of meaning, etc.) which becomes directed towards the intentionally held object (e.g., the liked as liked, judged as judged, or meant as meant). That is to say, every act has, as part of its formation, a noematic correlate, which is the object of the act — that which is intended by it. In other words, every intentional act has an "I-pole (the origin of the noesis)" and an "object-pole (or noema)." Husserl also refers to the noema as the Sinn or sense (meaning) of the act, and sometimes appears to use the terms interchangeably. Nevertheless, the Sinn does not represent what Husserl calls the "full noema": Sinn belongs to the noema, but the full noema is the object of the act as meant in the act, the perceived object as perceived, the judged object as judged, and so on.

Noema corrosa is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Noema.

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The NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) is a twelve-antenna expansion of the Plateau de Bure Interferometer in the French Alps, operated by the Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique. The NOEMA project is funded for 10 antennas and will be the most sensitive millimeter array in the northern hemisphere.

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