phenomenicadj.
/ˌfɛnəˈmɛnɪk/, /ˌfiːnəˈmɛnɪk/, U.S. /ˌfɛnəˈmɛnɪk/, /ˌfinəˈmɛnɪk/ Now rare.
Of the nature of a phenomenon, phenomenal (as opposed to noumenal). Cf. phenomenal adj. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > cognizable by the senses or phenomenal
palpable?1435
comprehensible1579
tractable1605
tangible1620
sensitive1686
phenomenic1808
phenomenal1825
1808–18 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 3293 With regard to all material, Phænomenic property.
1851 Fraser's Mag. 43 497 The ‘palpable’ is not the ‘real’, but the ‘actual’,—the ‘phænomenic’, if you must needs have a big, vague Latin or Greek word for it.
1915 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 9 802 The work of translation is of a high order, but is marred by a certain disregard for the accepted terminology of philosophy, as in the use of such terms as methodic, phenomenic, or consequent for consistent.
1976 Current Anthropol. 17 749/1 Conceptually, Strauss and Orans are in a bipartite world of an empirical or phenomenic (X) factor and a heuristic-analytic (Y) factor.
1993 New Lit. Hist. 24 182 The mirror..showed the negative aspect of every presence, the fictitious element in every manifestation, the phenomenic essence of all reality, the lethe that constitutes every aletheia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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