| phenomenon | |
| 1. n. A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof. | |
| 2. n. (extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science). | |
| 3. n. (metonymy) A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2). | |
| 4. n. Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable. | |
| 5. n. A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it. | |
| 6. n. A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing. | |
| 7. n. (philosophy, chiefly Kantian idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception an | |
