Meaning and example
any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
The passage used "phenomenon" to mean any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 2.244 places phenomenon in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 99.3% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 99.2%
characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- Known by
- 99.2%
a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
- Known by
- 99.3%
spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
- Known by
- 99.2%
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
- Known by
- 99.2%
an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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