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<a href="/word/*bha-#etymonline_v_52589" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *bha- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*bha-</a> (1) "to shine"). Meaning "extraordinary occurrence" is recorded by 1771. In philosophy, "an appearance or immediate object of experience" (1788). The plural is <span class="foreign notranslate">phenomena</span>.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:1570s">1570s</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to phenomenon">Entries linking to <i>phenomenon</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of epiphenomenon" href="/word/epiphenomenon#etymonline_v_32639">epiphenomenon<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>"secondary symptom," 1706, from <a href="/word/epi-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of epi- " class="crossreference notranslate">epi-</a> + <a href="/word/phenomenon" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of phenomenon " class="crossreference notranslate">phenomenon</a>. Plural is <span class="foreign notranslate">epiphenomena</span>. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Epiphenomenal</span>.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of phenom" href="/word/phenom#etymonline_v_35914">phenom<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>shortened form of <a href="/word/phenomenon" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of phenomenon " class="crossreference notranslate">phenomenon</a>, U.S. baseball slang, attested by 1890.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div><ul class="related__container--22iKI"><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of phenomena" href="/word/phenomena"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">phenomena</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of phenomenal" href="/word/phenomenal"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">phenomenal</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of phenomenology" href="/word/phenomenology"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">phenomenology</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of *bha-" href="/word/*bha-"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">*bha-</li></a><a class="related__more--1gm0U related__word--3Si0N" href="/word/phenomenon/related"><li>See all related words (<!-- -->6<!-- -->) <!-- -->></li></a></ul></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of phenomenon">Trends of <i>phenomenon</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.</div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="More to Explore">More to Explore</h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="linked" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of phenomenal" href="/word/phenomenal"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">phenomenal<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1803, "pertaining to or of the nature of a phenomenon," a hybrid from phenomenon + -al (1). Meaning "remarkable, exceptional, exciting wonder" is by 1850. [Phenomenal] is a metaphysical term with a use of its own. To divert it from this proper use to a job for which it is not ne</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="linked" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of phenomenology" href="/word/phenomenology"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">phenomenology<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1797, "the science of phenomena, as distinct from that of being;" 1840 as "a description or history of phenomena," the latter sense from German Phänomenologie, used as the title of the fourth part of the "Neues Organon" of German physicist Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777), coi</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of gurgle" href="/word/gurgle"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">gurgle<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"This phenomenon of long specialized use before becoming a part of the general vocabulary is often found in English" [Barnhart...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of agent" href="/word/agent"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">agent<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">The meaning "any natural force or substance which produces a phenomenon" is from 1550s....</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of prominence" href="/word/prominence"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">prominence<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">As a type of solar phenomenon, from 1862....</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of cathode" href="/word/cathode"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">cathode<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">Cathode ray is attested by 1880, but the phenomenon was known from 1859; cathode ray tube is from 1905....</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of gravity" href="/word/gravity"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">gravity<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">less confounded; but the most careful writers use gravitation for the attracting force, and gravity for the terrestrial phenomenon...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of metempsychosis" href="/word/metempsychosis"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">metempsychosis<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1580s, "passing of the soul at death into another body, human or animal," from Late Latin metempsychosis, from Greek metempsychosis, from meta, here indicating "change" (see meta-) + empsykhoun "to put a soul into," from en "in" (see in- (2)) + psychē "soul" (see psyche). 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