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phenomenon
noun
Definition of phenomenon
as in miracle
something extraordinary or surprising
our jaws dropped when we saw this basketball phenomenon play for the first time
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- anomaly
- aspect
- circumstance
- episode
- event
- experience
- fact
- incident
- miracle
- paradox
- reality
- sensation
- abnormality
- actuality
- appearance
- curiosity
- exception
- happening
- marvel
- nonpareil
- peculiarity
- portent
- prodigy
- sight
- spectacle
- stunner
- uniqueness
- one for the books
- rara avis
- something else
On this page you’ll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to phenomenon, such as: anomaly, aspect, circumstance, episode, event, and experience.
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WORDS RELATED TO PHENOMENON
- accident
- circumstances beyond one’s control
- earthquake
- force majeure
- freak accident
- hurricane
- inevitable accident
- marvel
- natural disaster
- phenomenon
- supernatural event
- tornado
- unavoidable casualty
- unforeseen event
- vis major
- wonder
- aura
- beard
- blind
- countenance
- dream
- facade
- front
- guise
- idea
- illusion
- image
- impression
- mirage
- phenomenon
- reflection
- screen
- seeming
- semblance
- sound
- specter
- vision
- change
- circumstance
- conclusion
- denouement
- event
- eventuality
- eventuation
- issue
- materialization
- occurrence
- outcome
- phenomenon
- result
- situation
- transpiration
- turn of events
- upshot
- accident
- act
- action
- advent
- adventure
- affair
- appearance
- business
- calamity
- case
- catastrophe
- celebration
- ceremony
- chance
- circumstance
- coincidence
- conjuncture
- crisis
- deed
- development
- emergency
- episode
- experience
- exploit
- fact
- function
- holiday
- incident
- juncture
- marvel
- matter
- milestone
- miracle
- misfortune
- mishap
- mistake
- occasion
- occurrence
- pass
- phase
- phenomenon
- predicament
- proceeding
- shift
- situation
- story
- thing
- tide
- transaction
- triumph
- turn
- wonder
- ace
- adept
- artist
- artiste
- authority
- buff
- connoisseur
- doyen
- graduate
- guru
- hot shot
- old hand
- old pro
- phenomenon
- pro
- professional
- shark
- virtuoso
- war-horse
- whiz
- wizard
- accomplishment
- act
- action
- actuality
- adventure
- affair
- being
- case
- circumstance
- conception
- consideration
- construction
- creation
- data
- datum
- deed
- entity
- episode
- evidence
- experience
- factor
- fait accompli
- feature
- happening
- incident
- information
- item
- manifestation
- occurrence
- organism
- particular
- performance
- phenomenon
- point
- proceeding
- specific
- statistic
- transaction
- truism
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Princeton’s WordNet
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phenomenonnoun
any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
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phenomenonnoun
a remarkable development
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Javed Ali:
As someone who used to look at this phenomenon of radicalization more on the international terrorism side, and looking at how people were similarly radicalized or mobilized to violence just like what happened on the sixth, from the al Qaeda ideology and the ISIS ideology, there are a lot of parallels to that world.
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Sara Ryding:
It means animals are evolving, but it does not necessarily mean that they are coping with climate change. We can see that some species have increased in appendage size so far, but we don’t know if they will be able to keep up as the climate crisis worsens, we also don’t know whether these shape-shifts actually aid in survival( and therefore are beneficial) or not. This phenomenon of shape-shifting shouldn’t be seen as a positive, but rather it is alarming that climate change is pushing animals to evolve like this, under such a relatively short timeframe.
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Ryan Lizza:
I think the media has struggled to cover the dark side of the Trump phenomenon because political reporters do not have experience covering a major political figure who is both openly racist and — let’s be honest — an extremely entertaining politician.
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Deborah Lipstadt:
Leaders on the left and the right are using this phenomenon as a way of drumming up support, claiming theyre victims, i fear it will get far worse before it gets better.
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Mikinori Kuwata:
Not many people have investigated it even though it’s a very important phenomenon.
Translations for PHENOMENON
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- ظاهرةArabic
- fenomenCatalan, Valencian
- fenomén, jev, úkazCzech
- PhänomenGerman
- φαινόμενοGreek
- fenomenoEsperanto
- fenómenoSpanish
- پدیدهPersian
- ilmiöFinnish
- phénomèneFrench
- fenómenoGalician
- ard-yindysManx
- घटनाHindi
- fenomènHaitian Creole
- tünemény, tünet, fenomén, jelenségHungarian
- երևույթ, ֆենոմենArmenian
- תופעהHebrew
- 現象Japanese
- 현상Korean
- fenomenNorwegian
- fenomeenDutch
- fenomenNorwegian Nynorsk
- fenomenNorwegian
- fenomen, zjawiskoPolish
- fenômenoPortuguese
- fenomenRomanian
- феномен, событие, эффект, необыкновенное явление, явлениеRussian
- pojavaSerbo-Croatian
- fenomenSwedish
- fenomenTurkish
- явищеUkrainian
- דערשיינונגYiddish
- 现象Chinese
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Pronunciation:
[ fɪnˈɒmɪnən], [ fɪnˈɒmɪnən], [ f_ɪ_n_ˈɒ_m_ɪ_n_ə_n]
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- model,
- classic,
- thoroughbred,
- masterpiece.
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- real,
- showcase,
- life,
- occasion,
- episode,
- occurrence,
- actuality.
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- good.
• act of god (noun)
- act-god,
- circumstances beyond control,
- supernatural events,
- vires majores,
- circumstances beyond ones control,
- unforeseen events,
- circumstances beyond one controls,
- freak accidents,
- inevitable accidents,
- circumstances beyond ones controls,
- circumstances beyond one control,
- circumstances beyond one’s controls,
- act god,
- circumstances beyond controls,
- unavoidable casualties.
• appearance (noun)
- Illusions,
- seemings,
- seeming.
• development (noun)
- out comes,
- turn events,
- out-comes,
- up-shots,
- turn event,
- up-shot,
- up shot,
- out-come,
- turn of event,
- up shots,
- transpirations,
- eventuations,
- out come.
• event (noun)
- happening,
- phenomenon,
- aspect.
• expert (noun)
- pro,
- doyens,
- doyen,
- experts,
- shark,
- adepts,
- Sharks,
- pros,
- artiste,
- wizards,
- artistes,
- old pro,
- proficients,
- hot shot.
• fact (noun)
- in-formation,
- in-formations,
- in formations.
• form (noun)
- Torsos,
- physique,
- Torsi,
- torso.
• hoo-hah (noun)
- hoo-hah.
• marvel (noun)
- one for books,
- something elses,
- one for book.
• matter (noun)
- in dividual,
- materialnesses,
- physical worlds,
- in-dividual,
- corporeities.
• miracle (noun)
- un usualness,
- un usualnesses,
- unusualnesses,
- supernatural occurrences,
- un-usualness,
- un-usualnesses.
• nine days’ wonder (noun)
- fifteen minutes fame,
- nine day wonder,
- flash pan,
- nine days wonder,
- nineday wonder,
- nine day wonders,
- nine-day wonders,
- nineday wonders,
- flash in pan,
- phenoms,
- flash the pan.
• object (noun)
- whatchamacallits.
• oddity (noun)
- unconventionalities,
- oddnesses,
- conversation pieces,
- in congruities,
- extra-ordinariness,
- un conventionalities,
- un naturalnesses,
- in-congruity,
- extra-ordinarinesses,
- un naturalness,
- un conventionality,
- un-naturalness,
- in-congruities,
- queernesses,
- un-naturalnesses,
- extra ordinariness,
- in congruity,
- extraordinarinesses,
- un-conventionalities,
- outlandishnesses,
- extra ordinarinesses,
- freakishnesses,
- bizarrenesses,
- un-conventionality.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- freakishness,
- revelation,
- matter,
- reality,
- process,
- queerness,
- gem,
- substance,
- Vis Major,
- wonder,
- tornado,
- stunner,
- miracle,
- prodigy,
- vision,
- Corporeity,
- statistic,
- bizarreness,
- nine-day wonder,
- substantiality,
- nine days’ wonder,
- datum,
- unusualness,
- organisms,
- spectaculars,
- supernatural event,
- Eventuation,
- spectacle,
- phase,
- phenom,
- fifteen minutes of fame,
- physical world,
- portent,
- sensation,
- conversation piece,
- Re-presentation,
- Natural Disaster,
- conjunctures,
- facts,
- corporeality,
- datums,
- whatchamacallit,
- thing,
- appearance,
- supernatural occurrence,
- the eighth wonder of the world,
- Natural Disasters,
- struck with amazement,
- object,
- protoplasm,
- overachiever,
- oddness,
- unforeseen event,
- surprise,
- extraordinariness,
- expert,
- jewel,
- marvel,
- freak accident,
- nonpareil,
- oddity,
- phoenix,
- Protoplasms,
- outlandishness,
- one for the book,
- turn of events,
- manifestation,
- form,
- one for the books,
- something else,
- PEARLS,
- Oddities,
- in formation,
- substantialities,
- conjuncture,
- unconventionality,
- event,
- transpiration,
- unavoidable casualty,
- phoenixes,
- fact,
- development,
- circumstances beyond one’s control,
- Materialness,
- specifics,
- Corporealities,
- physical process,
- inevitable accident,
- strangeness.
• prodigy (noun)
- genius,
- thunderbolt,
- curiosity,
- mahatma,
- luminary,
- paragon,
- magician,
- rarity,
- crackerjack,
- shocker,
- star,
- wizard,
- talent,
- whiz.
• reality (noun)
- concreteness,
- perceptibility,
- way of it,
- absoluteness,
- how things are,
- name of game.
• sensation (noun)
- bombshells,
- bombshell.
• spectacle (noun)
- ex-positions,
- re presentations,
- re-presentations,
- re presentation,
- ex-position.
• stunner (noun)
- eighth wonder the world,
- the eighth wonder the world,
- eighth wonder world,
- the eighth wonder of world,
- eighth wonder of world,
- the eighth wonder world,
- eighth wonder of the world.
• substance (noun)
- staples.
• surprise (noun)
- precipitousness,
- curveball,
- eye-opener,
- epiphanies,
- eureka,
- suddenness,
- thunderbolts,
- whammy,
- eye-openers,
- Astoundment.
• vision (noun)
- wraith,
- Visions,
- warlock.
• wonder (noun)
- cynosure.
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Other synonyms:
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- beaut,
- humdinger,
- the sublime,
- godsend,
- dream,
- inspiration,
- must-have,
- saving grace,
- incident.
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- wonderment,
- showstopper,
- peach,
- piece of work,
- bonanza,
- smasher,
- beauty.
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- wizardry,
- wow,
- gift,
- knockout,
- beacon,
- pearl,
- astonishment.
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- dynamite,
- gold,
- blessing.
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- find.
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- show.
• rarity
- rare bird.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- character,
- paradox,
- shape,
- maverick,
- crank,
- experience,
- sight,
- apparition,
- pageant,
- Unconformity,
- card,
- image,
- matter of fact,
- amazing thing,
- circumstance,
- accident,
- ONER,
- tangible,
- consequence,
- bare facts,
- personage,
- Extrinsicality,
- exception,
- fortune,
- scene,
- misfit,
- tradition,
- issue,
- mirage,
- situation,
- lion,
- Phasm,
- phantom,
- contingency,
- entity,
- jeu de theatre,
- false image,
- uniqueness,
- effect,
- kook,
- coup de theatre,
- luck,
- mind-boggler,
- eventuality,
- monster,
- original,
- peculiarity,
- flash,
- screwball,
- astonishing thing,
- abnormality,
- odd bird,
- Rara Avis,
- trip,
- incidence,
- anomaly,
- particular,
- legend,
- nonconformist,
- item,
- Objectiveness,
- levitation,
- wonderful thing,
- evolution,
- hazard,
- odd fish,
- singularity,
- affair,
- weirdo,
- Gazingstock,
- taking place,
- sign,
- act of god,
- amazement,
- extraneousness,
- happenstance,
- adventure,
- somebody,
- eccentric,
- presence,
- nonesuch,
- figure,
- proceeding,
- hap,
- oddball,
- advent,
- Phenomena,
- chance,
- freak,
- weirdie,
- caution,
- condition,
- splendor,
- marvelment,
- celebrity,
- juncture.
How to use «Phenomenon» in context?
The word «phenomenon» is derived from the Greek words «phaino» (meaning «to appear») and «phenomenon» (meaning » observe, discern, perceive»). A phenomenon typically is an observed fact or occurrence. For example, the sun appears to rise and set each day. Water floating on top of the ocean appears to be at a lower level than the surrounding water. Clouds move around the sky. A phenomenon can also be an idea, such as the theory of evolution.
Paraphrases for Phenomenon:
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Proper noun, singular
events.
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Noun, singular or mass
event.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
data, emergence, fact, factor, incidence, issue, manifestation, matter, occurrence, pattern, practice, process, scourge, situation, something, syndrome, thing, trend.
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Noun, singular or mass
Hypernym for Phenomenon:
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effect, metempsychosis, hazard, event, consequence, natural phenomenon, fortune, levitation, luck, rebirth, issue, pulsation, chance, upshot, result, outcome.
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Hyponym for Phenomenon:
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event
development.
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physical process, process.
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event
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