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Synonyms for phenomenon
fɪˈnɒm əˌnɒn, -nənphe·nom·e·non

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Wiktionary3.3 / 7 votes

  1. phenomenonnoun

    An observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.

    Synonyms:
    event

  2. phenomenonnoun

    A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.

    Synonyms:
    prodigy, phenom, wonder, marvel, miracle

  3. phenomenonnoun

    Synonyms:
    wonder, oddity, miracle, marvel

  4. phenomenonnoun

    Antonyms:
    noumenon, thing-in-itself

Princeton's WordNet

  1. phenomenonnoun

    any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning

  2. phenomenonnoun

    a remarkable development

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Dictionary of English Synonymes4.5 / 2 votes

  1. phenomenonnoun

    Synonyms:
    [pl. Phenomena.] appearance, what is seen (as distinguished from its essence or substance)

  2. phenomenonnoun

    Synonyms:
    prodigy, wonder, marvel, miracle

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "phenomenon":

    phenomena, occurrence, problem

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How to use phenomenon in a sentence?

  1. Sarah Everard:

    Over the years Metropolitan Police Service’ve had a series of blows to policing, around the policing of violence against women, metropolitan Police Service’ve had the kind of collapse in rape prosecutions which has been an ongoing issue for a while and then Metropolitan Police Service have had the emergence of this phenomenon of police perpetrated abuse.

  2. Nirav Shah:

    This phenomenon of some doses arriving out of the temperature range happened not just in Maine, but also in some other states, for example, in Michigan.

  3. Sebastien Pietrasanta:

    (Hauchard) is the perfect example of the phenomenon we're facing: a small provincial village, a well integrated family with jobs, radicalized on the internet at a very young age, converts and leaves, It illustrates the diversity of the profile and the self-radicalization on the internet.

  4. 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.

  5. Paul Martini:

    The current poor state of cyber security has created a phenomenon that causes people to assume every technology hiccup is the result of a hack.


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