OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7632

phenomenon

/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fenómeno
A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon, arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion.
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
fenómeno
A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
The phenomenon of a huge blazing fire, upon the opposite bank of the glen, again presented itself to the eye of the watchman. . . . He resolved to examine more nearly the object of…
fenómeno
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).
Every "phenomenon" must be, at any rate, partly subjective or dependent on the subject.
The Kantian phenomenon is the real as we are compelled to think it.