We define and studyco-Noetherian dimension of rings for which the injective envelopeof simple modules have finite Krull-dimension. This is a Moritainvariant dimension that measures how far the ring is from beingco-Noetherian. The co-Noetherian dimension of certain rings,including commutative rings, are determined. It is shown that the class ${mathcal W}_n$ of rings with co-Noetherian dimension...
