All 10 Uses
phenomenon
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Walden
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- There was a certain positive originality, however slight, to be detected in him, and I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion, a phenomenon so rare that I would any day walk ten miles to observe it, and it amounted to the re-origination of many of the institutions of society.†
Chpt 6phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- How peaceful the phenomena of the lake!†
Chpt 9phenomena = things that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- This was probably the same phenomenon to which I have referred, which is especially observed in the morning, but also at other times, and even by moonlight.†
Chpt 10 *phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.†
Chpt 16
- The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale.†
Chpt 17phenomena = things that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- Few phenomena gave me more delight than to observe the forms which thawing sand and clay assume in flowing down the sides of a deep cut on the railroad through which I passed on my way to the village, a phenomenon not very common on so large a scale, though the number of freshly exposed banks of the right material must have been greatly multiplied since railroads were invented.†
Chpt 17
- Few phenomena gave me more delight than to observe the forms which thawing sand and clay assume in flowing down the sides of a deep cut on the railroad through which I passed on my way to the village, a phenomenon not very common on so large a scale, though the number of freshly exposed banks of the right material must have been greatly multiplied since railroads were invented.†
Chpt 17phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- This phenomenon is more exhilarating to me than the luxuriance and fertility of vineyards.†
Chpt 17
- Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy.†
Chpt 17phenomena = things that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- They tell me of California and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.—of Georgia or of Massachusetts, all transient and fleeting phenomena, till I am ready to leap from their court-yard like the Mameluke bey.†
Chpt 18
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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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In philosophy, a phenomenon is something as known through the senses. It is contrasted with a noumenon.