Phaenomenon vs. Phenomenon

See Phenomenon.

A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.

(extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science).

(metonymy) A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2).

Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.

A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.

A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.

An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).

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.

Example: ‘In the phenomena of the material world, and in many of the phenomena of mind.’;

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

any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning

a remarkable development

A phenomenon (Greek: φαινόμενον, romanized: phainómenon, lit. 'thing appearing to view'; plural phenomena) is an observable fact or event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which cannot be directly observed.