English > phenomenon: 2 senses > noun 1, Tops| Meaning | Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning. |
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| Narrower | consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot | A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon |
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| levitation | The phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means |
| luck, fortune, chance, hazard | An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way / way rather than another |
| luck, fortune | An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome |
| metempsychosis, rebirth | After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body |
| natural phenomenon | All phenomena that are not artificial |
| pulsation | A periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity |
| Broader | process, physical process | A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states |
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| Spanish | fenómeno |
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| Catalan | fenomen |
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| Adjectives | phenomenal | of or relating to a phenomenon |
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