phenomenn.
/ˈfɛnəmən/, /ˈfiːnəmən/, U.S. /ˈfɛnəmən/, /ˈfinəmən/ Now rare.
= phenomenon n.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object > cognizable by the senses or phenomenon
sensiblea1500
phenomenona1639
phenomen1644
palpability1841
effect1856
tangible1890
interphenomenon1944
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxi. 271 I apply them to the seuerall Phoenomens which Mr. Hall shewed me.
1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 44 These fancies and phenomenes in their braine.
1708 G. Mackenzie Lives Writers Sc. Nation I. 408 Both Parts [of the moon] came at last to rejoin in one, which was no sooner done, but a Cloud overspread them both, and so the Phænomen disappear'd.
1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory viii. 205 This Phoenomen is observ'd only in warm Weather.
1898 Bot. Gaz. 25 322 The orientation of the plant-egg is at bottom a phenomen of adaptation.
1967 Brain 90 241 It is to the phenomen of myoclonus that we owe the discovery of the somatosensory evoked response in the human cortex.
1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 27/1 Another unique nighttime phenomen associated with most every shuttle mission is the water dump cloud.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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