phenomenalness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. Late Latin phaenomenonder. English phenomenon Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al ▲ Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. French phénomène ▲ Old French -al Middle French -al French -al French phénoménalbor. English phenomenal Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English phenomenalness From phenomenal + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being phenomenal.
[I]n that apprehension of self which Mr Ferrier justly lays down as at the root of knowledge, the self apprehended is not merely the same thing as the self apprehending, in which case the process would be unimportant: the apprehending the apprehended self is the clothing it with various predicates (then, indeed, first understood), among them locality (corporealness or phenomenalness).
1865, John Grote, “[James Frederick] Ferrier’s Institutes of Metaphysic”, in Exploratio Philosophica: Rough Notes on Modern Intellectual Science, part I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Deighton, Bell, and Co.; London: Bell and Daldy, page 72:A Semitic verb, in which accordingly is but the phantom of an implied nominative held suspended!—the Divine assertion of an “i am that i am,” in which, however, is so the pronoun suppressed, as that rightly is the actual mere phenomenalness of the Universe, as revealed to us, and not any real absoluteness of it, at all sought to be represented:—only that which is mere Motion and E-motion, rightly figurable by the mere verb, being presumed to be included in the “name.”
1873, Sara S[ophia] Hennell, “The Requisite New Side Which Appears Furnished by the Present Scheme of Investigated Religion to the Philosophy of General History”, in Present Religion: as a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought, part II (First Division: Intellectual Effect), London: Trübner & Co., […], page 573:I therefore will not make my views known, in an intellectual sense—other than to say that I’m ready to make known the view that I don’t think of making views known as being intellectual work or an intellectual gesture. Because, as we see, such making known of views can only pose a temptation and a really unpleasant dilemma for the one on whose behalf that intellectual type has made his views known! But it’s something else entirely if this same type, in a moment of some incomprehensible courage, were to come out against one or another individual and one or another phenomenon whose phenomenalness comes directly from that individual.
1997, Bora Ćosić, translated by Ann Clymer Bigelow, “Diary of an Apatrid”, in My Family’s Role in the World Revolution and Other Prose (Writings from an Unbound Europe), Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, pages 178–179: