Both Uses of
phenomenon
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Another phenomenon, still more strikingly modern, was a package of lucifer matches, which, in old times, would have been thought actually to borrow their instantaneous flame from the nether fires of Tophet.†
Chpt 2 *phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life.†
Chpt 15phenomena = things that exists or happened -- often of special interest
Definitions:
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(1)
(phenomenon) something that exists or happened -- especially something of special interest -- sometimes someone or something that is extraordinary"Phenomenons" and "phenomena" are both appropriate plural forms of this noun. "Phenomena" is generally used in scientific or philosophical contexts.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In philosophy, a phenomenon is something as known through the senses. It is contrasted with a noumenon.