Phaenomenon vs. Phenomenon

Phaenomenonnoun

See Phenomenon.

Phenomenonnoun

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

Phenomenonnoun

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

Phenomenonnoun

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

Phenomenonnoun

Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.

Phenomenonnoun

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

Phenomenonnoun

A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.

Phenomenonnoun

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).

Phenomenonnoun

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.

Phenomenonnoun

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

Phenomenonnoun

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

Phenomenonnoun

a remarkable development

Phenomenon

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.