About The Word Phenomenon
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Phenomenon
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What's The Definition Of Phenomenon?
[n] any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
[n] a remarkable development Synonyms | Synonyms for Phenomenon: Related Terms | Find terms related to Phenomenon: abnormality | actuality | adventure | amazement | anomaly | apparition | appearance | astonishing thing | astonishment | circumstance | curiosity | episode | event | exception | experience | fact | false image | figure | form | gazingstock | hap | happening | happenstance | image | incident | marvel | marvelment | matter of fact | miracle | mirage | nonesuch | occasion | occurrence | paradox | particular | peculiarity | phantom | phasm | portent | presence | prodigy | quite a thing | rarity | reality | sensation | shape | sight | singularity | something else | spectacle | stunner | turn of events | uniqueness | unusualness | vision | wonder | wonderful thing | wonderment See Also | chance | consequence | development | effect | event | fortune | hazard | issue | levitation | luck | metempsychosis | natural phenomenon | outcome | process | pulsation | rebirth | result | upshot Phenomenon In Webster's Dictionary \Phe*nom"e*non\, n.; pl. {Phenomena}. [L.
phaenomenon, Gr. faino`menon, fr. fai`nesqai to appear,
fai`nein to show. See {Phantom}.]
1. 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.
In the phenomena of the material world, and in many
of the phenomena of mind. --Stewart.
2. 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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