All 7 Uses of
phenomenon
in
The Screwtape Letters
- The dryness and dullness through which your patient is now going are not, as you fondly suppose, your workmanship; they are merely a natural phenomenon which will do us no good unless you make a good use of it.
Chpt 8 *phenomenon = thing that exists
- And it is also to be noted that the Trough sexuality is subtly different in quality from that of the Peak—much less likely to lead to the milk and water phenomenon which the humans call "being in love", much more easily drawn into perversions, much less contaminated by those generous and imaginative and even spiritual concomitants which often render human sexuality so disappointing.†
Chpt 9phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- Besides, the phenomenon is of itself disgusting and a direct insult to the realism, dignity, and austerity of Hell.†
Chpt 11
- As you ought to have known, the asphyxiating cloud which prevented your attacking the patient on his walk back from the old mill, is a well-known phenomenon.†
Chpt 13
- The phenomenon would then be merely natural.†
Chpt 15
- No natural phenomenon is really in our favour.†
Chpt 15
- Now that the transformation is complete I recognise it as a periodical phenomenon.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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.