All 6 Uses
phenomenon
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This Side of Paradise
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- He was, perhaps, nineteen, with stooped shoulders, pale blue eyes, and, as Amory could tell from his general appearance, without much conception of social competition and such phenomena of absorbing interest.†
Chpt 1.2phenomena = things that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- ** "PETTING" On the Triangle trip Amory had come into constant contact with that great current American phenomenon, the "petting party."†
Chpt 1.2 *phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- Two glasses of sauterne at luncheon loosened his tongue, and he talked, with what he felt was something of his old charm, of religion and literature and the menacing phenomena of the social order.†
Chpt 2.2phenomena = things that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- So engrossed in his thoughts was he that he was scarcely surprised at that strange phenomenon—cordiality manifested within fifty miles of Manhattan—when a passing car slowed down beside him and a voice hailed him.†
Chpt 2.5phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- I can name offhand over one hundred natural phenomena that have been changed by the will of man—a hundred instincts in man that have been wiped out or are now held in check by civilization.†
Chpt 2.5phenomena = things that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- Nature as a rather coarse phenomenon composed largely of flowers that, when closely inspected, appeared moth-eaten, and of ants that endlessly traversed blades of grass, was always disillusioning; nature represented by skies and waters and far horizons was more likable.†
Chpt 2.5phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
Definitions:
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(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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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In philosophy, a phenomenon is something as known through the senses. It is contrasted with a noumenon.