In his analysis of the interiority of word in Hans-George Gadamer's hermeneutics, Jean Grondin suggests that his hermeneutics of vouloir-dire might be understood as a "phenomenology of the inapparent". The suggestion establishes a connection between Gadamer's philosophical proposal and the controversial expression used by Heidegger to describe the originary sense of phenomenology. Nowadays, phenomenology of the inapparent has become the driving force of the latter by means of the French debate over the theological turn. The article aims to determine the extent to which that expression might be as well the driving force of Gadamer's hermeneutics. In order to achieve this purpose, the article examines the conditions of possibility of such an approach.