Phenomenon

[fɪ'nɒmɪnən] or [fə'nɑmɪnən]

Definition

(noun.) any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning.

(noun.) a remarkable development.

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Definition

(n.) An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.

(n.) That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [pl. Phenomena.] [1]. Appearance, what is seen (as distinguished from its essence or substance).[2]. Prodigy, wonder, marvel, miracle.

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Definition

n. an appearance: the appearance which anything makes to our consciousness as distinguished from what it is in itself: an observed result: a remarkable or unusual person thing or appearance:—pl. Phenom′ena.—adj. Phenom′enal pertaining to a phenomenon: of the nature of a phenomenon: so strange as to excite great wonder: out of the common.—v.t. Phenom′enalise to represent as a phenomenon.—ns. Phenom′enalism the philosophical doctrine that the phenomenal and the real are identical—that phenomena are the only realities—also Externalism; Phenom′enalist one who believes in phenomenalism; Phenomenal′ity the character of being phenomenal.—adv. Phenom′enally.—v.t. Phenom′enise to bring into the world of experience.—ns. Phenom′enism the doctrines of the phenomenists; Phenom′enist one who believes only what he observes or phenomena one who rejects necessary primary principles.—adj. Phenomenōlog′ical.—n. Phenomenol′ogy a description of phenomena.

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