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phenomenal, a. (n.)|fɪˈnɒmɪnəl|
Also phæn-.
[f. phenomen-on + -al1: so mod.F. phénoménal (1875 in Littré).]
1. a. Of the nature of a phenomenon; consisting of phenomena; cognizable by the senses, or in the way of immediate experience; apparent, sensible, perceptible; Psychol., of or relating to a phenomenon as it is directly perceived or sensed, esp. as compared with its objective reality; also in special collocations, as phenomenal regression, the tendency for a shape, esp. a perspective, to be perceived as nearer to the shape of a related and known object than it actually is. (Opposed to real, absolute, etc., and in Philosophy to noumenal.) Also absol., the phenomenal, that which is cognizable by the senses.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 205 The Mosaic narrative thus interpreted gives a just and faithful exposition of the birth and parentage and successive movements of phenomenal sin (peccatum phænomenon; crimen primarium et commune). 1836Emerson Nature, Idealism Wks. (Bohn) II. 165 Seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal. 1843Mill Logic i. iii. §7 All that we know is therefore phænomenal—phænomenal of the unknown. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 534 If a path of transit from the phenomenal to the noumenal world could be found..should we not then be quickly in possession of the truth? 1865J. Grote Explor. Philos. i. i, The ideal is the subjective, the phenomenal the objective. 1874Sidgwick Meth. Ethics ii. iii. 120 The Phenomenal is the Real: there is no other real that we can distinguish from it. 1881[see phenomenalization]. 1884J. Tait Mind in Matter (1892) 3 When the positivist demands acceptance of the phenomenal as the ultimate, the position is felt to be inadmissible. 1922K. Koffka in Psychol. Bull. XIX. 569 A field, reflecting a certain amount and quality of light, depends for its phenomenal color-quality upon the ground on which it appears. 1931R. H. Thouless in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXI. 340 The shape reported by the subject as seen by him may be called the ‘apparent shape’ or ‘phenomenal shape’. Ibid. 344 As a general name for this tendency, in whatever kind of perceptual character it is found, we may use the term phenomenal regression to the ‘real’ object or, more shortly, phenomenal regression. 1948Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LII. 467/1 The factor of phenomenal regression was a quantity differing widely among different people. 1951G. R. Wendt in S. S. Stevens Handbk. Exper. Psychol. xxxi. 1208/2 We lack words in our language to distinguish phenomenal motion from the physical event. 1969C. O. Schrag Experience & Being i. i. 19 The phenomenal field, according to Merleau-Ponty, is neither an ‘outer world’ of objectively reconstituted properties..nor is it an abstracted ‘inner world’.
b. Of, relating to, or concerned with phenomena, esp. with the phenomena of any science.
1840Whewell Philos. Induct. Sc. x. ii. §4. II. 103 Descriptive or Phenomenal geology. Ibid. §7. 109 We must have a Phenomenal science preparatory to each ætiological one. 1888A. J. Balfour in Pall Mall G. 2 Oct. 1/2 The belief in a future state is one of the most striking differences between phenomenal and supernatural religion.
c. as n. pl. Things of the nature of phenomena.
1878G. D. Boardman Creative Week 289 (Cent.) In the matter of elementals, the new earth will be identical with the old; in the matter of phenomenals, the new earth will be different from the old.
2. Of the nature of a remarkable phenomenon (phenomenon 3); very notable or remarkable, extraordinary, exceptional; ‘prodigious’.
a1850Rossetti Dante & Circ. i. (1874) 23 To afford a glimpse of the phenomenal fact that the bosom of the Church was indeed for a time the refuge of this shorn lamb [Cecco]. 1862B. Taylor Home & Abr. Ser. ii. ii. ix. 190 Others have been found, showing that the tree is not phenomenal in its appearance. 1882Athenæum 7 Jan. 19/2 The success of Miss Kate Greenaway's ‘Birthday Book’ was phenomenal. |