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phenomenon - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, spectacle, one for the books, rara avis, something else, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | act of God |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | divine act |
| Synonyms: | accident, circumstances beyond one's control, earthquake, force majeure, freak accident, hurricane, inevitable accident, marvel, natural disaster, phenomenon, supernatural event, tornado, unavoidable casualty, unforeseen event, vis major, wonder |
| Main Entry: | expert |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | master, specialist |
| Synonyms: | ace*, adept, artist, authority, buff, connoisseur, graduate, guru*, old hand*, phenomenon, pro, professional, proficient, virtuoso, whiz*, wizard, artiste, doyen, hot shot, old pro, shark* |
| Antonyms: | amateur, apprentice, ignoramus, novice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, affair, case, chance, circumstance, episode, event, experience, go*, incident, milestone, occasion, phenomenon, proceeding, scene, thing* |
| Antonyms: | method, plan, system |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | manifestation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhibition, proof |
| Synonyms: | appearance, demonstration, disclosure, display, explanation, exposure, expression, indication, instance, mark, meaning, phenomenon, revelation, show, sign, symptom, token, materialization |
| Antonyms: | concealment, cover, hiding, obscurity, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | marvel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wonder |
| Synonyms: | curiosity, genius, miracle, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, sensation, whiz, one for the books, something else, stunner |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
| Main Entry: | miracle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wonderful, surprising event or thing |
| Synonyms: | marvel, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, rarity, revelation, sensation, surprise, wonder, stunner, supernatural occurrence, thaumaturgy, unusualness |
| Antonyms: | normalcy, usualness |
| Main Entry: | prodigy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or thing that is extraordinary |
| Synonyms: | brain*, curiosity, enormity, freak*, genius, intellect, marvel, mastermind, miracle, monster, natural, phenomenon, portent, rare bird*, rarity, sensation, spectacle, talent, whiz*, whiz kid*, wizard, wonder, child genius, one in a million, stunner, wonder child, wunderkind |
| Notes: | prodigy refers to a person with exceptional talents, protégé is a male who is guided or helped by someone, and protégée is the female version |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
| Synonyms: | absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line*, brass tacks*, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world*, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
| Antonyms: | belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spectacle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something showy; exhibition |
| Synonyms: | comedy, curiosity, demonstration, display, drama, event, exposition, extravaganza, marvel, movie, pageant, parade, performance, phenomenon, play, production, representation, scene, show, sight, spectacular, tableau, view, wonder |
| Antonyms: | normality, ordinariness |
| Main Entry: | surprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something amazing; state of amazement |
| Synonyms: | amazement, astonishment, attack, awe, bewilderment, consternation, curiosity, disappointment, disillusion, fortune, godsend*, incredulity, jolt*, kick*, marvel, miracle, phenomenon, portent, precipitation, prodigy, rarity, revelation, shock, start, stupefaction, unexpected, unforeseen, whammy*, wonder, wonderment, abruptness, astoundment, bombshell, curveball, epiphany, eureka, eye-opener, miscalculation, precipitance, precipitousness, suddenness, thunderbolt* |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nine days' wonder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | momentary success |
| Synonyms: | annus mirabilis, flash in the pan, phenomenon, sensation, wonderment, fifteen minutes of fame, nine-day wonder, phenom, stunner |
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
| Synonyms: | accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder, conjuncture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | matter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | substance |
| Synonyms: | amount, being, body, element, entity, individual, material, object, phenomenon, quantity, stuff, sum, thing, constituents, corporeality, corporeity, materialness, physical world, protoplasm, substantiality |
| Antonyms: | nothing, nothingness, zero |
| Main Entry: | object |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thing able to be seen/felt/perceived |
| Synonyms: | article, body, bulk, commodity, doodad*, doohickey*, entity, fact, gadget, gizmo*, item, mass, matter, phenomenon, reality, something, substance, thingamajig*, volume, widget*, whatchamacallit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oddity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abnormality |
| Synonyms: | anomaly, characteristic, curiosity, eccentricity, freak, idiosyncrasy, incongruity, irregularity, kink, peculiarity, phenomenon, quirk, rarity, strangeness, bizarreness, conversation piece, extraordinariness, freakishness, oddness, outlandishness, queerness, singularity, unconventionality, unnaturalness |
| Antonyms: | convention, habit, norm, normality, regularity, standard, usualness |
| Main Entry: | substance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entity, element |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animal, being, body, bulk, core, corpus, fabric, force, hunk, individual, item, mass, material, matter, object, person, phenomenon, reality, something, staple, stuff, texture, thing, concreteness |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something felt, seen, perceived |
| Synonyms: | affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence, fact, figure, form, gadget, goods, implement, individual, information, instrument, item, machine, material, matter, means, mechanism, object, part, person, phenomenon, piece, point, portion, shape, situation, stuff, subject, substance, tool, word, corporeality, existent, materiality |
| Main Entry: | development |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening, incident |
| Synonyms: | change, circumstance, conclusion, denouement, event, eventuality, issue, occurrence, outcome, phenomenon, result, situation, upshot, eventuation, materialization, transpiration, turn of events |
| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | event; detail of action |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, actuality, adventure, affair, being, case, circumstance, conception, consideration, construction, creation, data, deed, entity, episode, evidence, experience, factor, fait accompli, feature, happening, incident, information, item, manifestation, occurrence, organism, particular, performance, phenomenon, point, proceeding, specific, transaction, truism, datum, statistic |
| Antonyms: | lie |
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