phenomenal world
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Especially in philosophical idealism, the world as it appears to human beings as a result of being structured by human understanding; the world as experienced, as opposed to the world of things-in-themselves.
Example Sentences
- "With intelligence springs up at a stroke the phenomenal world, the world as we know it."
- "He . . . suggests a new theory based on the radical assumption that light can convey information about the world and, hence, that the phenomenal world does not have to be constructed by the mind (or the brain) out of meaningless data."
- "It is true that Wang does write about the power of tragedy to pierce the illusions of the phenomenal world and release us from the bondage of the "desires of life.""