anything that can be perceived as an occurrence or fact by the senses
2.
any remarkable occurrence or person
3. philosophy
a.
the object of perception, experience, etc
b.
(in the writings of Kant) a thing as it appears and is interpreted in perception and reflection, as distinguished from its real nature as a thing-in-itself
Compare noumenon
▶ USAGE Although phenomena is often treated as if it were singular, correct usage is to employ phenomenon with a singular construction and phenomena with a plural: that is an interesting phenomenon (not phenomena); several new phenomena were recorded in his notes
Word origin
C16: via Late Latin from Greek phainomenon, from phainesthai to appear, from phainein to show
Examples of 'phaenomenon' in a sentence
phaenomenon
This phaenomenon may be explained from the same principle.
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All these principles may concur in producing the present phaenomenon.
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I shall be obliged to make a digression in order to explain this phaenomenon.
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The great propensity men have to pride may be considered as another similar phaenomenon.
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But this phaenomenon likewise depends upon the same principle.
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The phaenomenon may be real, though my explication be chimerical.
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For this reason the present phaenomenon will be sufficiently accounted for, in explaining that passion.
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But here it may not be amiss to remark a very curious phaenomenon, which the present subject suggests to us.
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So remarkable a phaenomenon merits our attention, and must be traced up to its first principles.
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