phenomenon

Noun
  1. Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning (synset 100034512)
    is a type of: physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
    subtypes:
    • natural phenomenon - all phenomena that are not artificial
    • levitation - the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means
    • metempsychosis, rebirth - after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body
    • consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
    • chance, fortune, hazard, luck - an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
    • fortune, luck - an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
    • pulsation - a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
  2. A remarkable development (synset 107438418)
    is a type of: development - a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

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