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Meaning of "epiphenomena" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EPIPHENOMENA

epiphenomena  [ˌɛpɪfɪˈnɒmɪnə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EPIPHENOMENA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Epiphenomena is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EPIPHENOMENA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Epiphenomenon

An epiphenomenon is a secondary phenomenon that occurs alongside or in parallel to a primary phenomenon.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EPIPHENOMENA


agnomina
æɡˈnɒmɪnə
alumina
əˈluːmɪnə
antilegomena
ˌæntɪlɛˈɡɒmɪnə
cognomina
kɒɡˈnɒmɪnə
determiner
dɪˈtɜːmɪnə
examiner
ɪɡˈzæmɪnə
lamina
ˈlæmɪnə
lumina
ˈluːmɪnə
Minna
ˈmɪnə
nomina
ˈnɒmɪnə
numina
ˈnjuːmɪnə
phenomena
fɪˈnɒmɪnə
phi-phenomenona
ˈfaɪfɪˌnɒmɪnə
praenomina
priːˈnɒmɪnə
prenomina
priːˈnɒmɪnə
prolegomena
ˌprəʊleˈɡɒmɪnə
rumina
ˈruːmɪnə
stamina
ˈstæmɪnə
superphenomena
ˈsuːpərfɪˌnɒmɪnə
terminer
ˈtɜːmɪnə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EPIPHENOMENA

epiphanic
epiphanies
epiphanous
epiphany
epiphenomenal
epiphenomenalism
epiphenomenalist
epiphenomenally
epiphenomenon
epiphonema
epiphragm
epiphyllous
epiphyseal
epiphyses
epiphysial
epiphysis
epiphysis cerebri
epiphytal
epiphyte
epiphytic

WORDS THAT END LIKE EPIPHENOMENA

arena
Athena
Ballymena
hapax legomena
Helena
homologoumena
homologumena
Lena
Magdalena
Modena
Ndjamena
noumena
paraleipomena
paralipomena
plena
Saint Helena
sena
Siena
tetrahymena
theologoumena

Synonyms and antonyms of epiphenomena in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «epiphenomena» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EPIPHENOMENA

Find out the translation of epiphenomena to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of epiphenomena from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «epiphenomena» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

附带现象
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

epifenómenos
570 millions of speakers

English

epiphenomena
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

epiphenomena
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

epiphenomena
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эпифеноменами
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

epifenômenos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

epiphenomena
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

épiphénomènes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Epiphenomena
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Begleiterscheinungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

epiphenomenonの複数形
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

epiphenomena
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Epiphenomena
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

epiphenomena
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

epiphenomena
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपस्मार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

epiphenomena
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

epifenomeni
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

epiphenomena
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

епіфеноменом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

epifenomene
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιφαινόμενα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

epiphenomena
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avspeglingar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

epiphenomena
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of epiphenomena

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EPIPHENOMENA»

The term «epiphenomena» is normally little used and occupies the 145.100 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EPIPHENOMENA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «epiphenomena» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «epiphenomena» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about epiphenomena

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPIPHENOMENA»

Discover the use of epiphenomena in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to epiphenomena and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity
Epiphenomena — the babies in the bath-water? In the quotation from Hopper ( 1996), the term "epiphenomenal" is used almost as a synonym of "emergent". Dennett (1991:401-402) notes that the term "epiphenome- non", without anyone ...
Östen Dahl, 2004
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Philosophical Papers : Volume II
EFFECTS AND EPIPHENOMENA I return now to the problems I raised against regularity analyses, hoping to show that my counterfactual analysis can overcome them. The problem of effects, as it confronts a counterfactual analysis, is as ...
David Lewis Professor of Philosophy Princeton University, 1987
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Cognitive Psychology
Epiphenomena and Demand Characteristics Although there seems to be good evidence for the existence of both propositions and mental images (Kosslyn, 1994a, 1994b), the debate is not over. Perhaps some of the results found in image ...
Robert Sternberg, 2008
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Laws of Nature
In fact, assume that our case of lawfully equivalent epiphenomena takes place in a deterministic world. Then the chance of every obtaining state of affairs is one hundred percent at all times. With this assumption, the probabilistic analysis at ...
John W. Carroll, 1994
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Mental Causation and the Metaphysics of Mind
By the very definition of epiphenomena (in the philosophical sense), Otto's heartfelt avowals that he has epiphenomena could not be evidence for himself or anyone else that he does have them, since he would be saying exactly the same  ...
Neil Campbell, 2003
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Modernity and Mass Culture
Epiphenomena currently include such exhibition materials as posters, ads, and trailers, as well as an extensive array of media coverage wttich features pieces on stars, directors, and the making of films, and the marketing of products such as  ...
James Naremore, Patrick Brantlinger, 1991
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Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference
Much of the existing research effort, however, is devoted not directly to this central puzzle, but to various what could be called epiphenomena: speech rhythm, prosodic hierarchy, intonational structure, naturalness of synthetic speech, etc.
Plinio A. Barbosa, Sandra Madureira, César Reis.
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The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to ...
EPIPHENOMENAUSM: All subjective phenomena — indeed, consciousness itself — are epiphenomena of matter. Epi means secondary; thus epiphenomenon refers to the secondary effects of underlying material interactions, effects that in ...
Amit Goswami, 2006
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Matter and Consciousness
Mental properties are thus epiphenomena. They are held to just appear or emerge when the growing brain passes a certain level of complexity. But there is more. The epiphenomenalist holds that while mental phenomena are caused to occur ...
Paul M. Churchland, 2013
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Causation and Persistence : A Theory of Causation: A Theory ...
Epiphenomena The problem of epiphenomena, or joint effects, is just this: a theory of causation should treat as causally unconnected mere joint effects of common cause. Although such effects have a common origin, neither is a cause of the ...
Douglas Ehring Associate Professor of Philosophy Southern Methodist University, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPIPHENOMENA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term epiphenomena is used in the context of the following news items.
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Germans in rift with the rest of Europe over debt relief as Greek …
"Orthogonal", "epiphenomena" - Olivier Blanchard is the Will Self of international economists. Gonna miss him. — Mehreen (@MehreenKhn) ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Georgian Zoo Animals Gone Wild
All in all, the tragicomic saga of the flood and its epiphenomena have delivered an irrevocable blow to the credibility of the current coalition ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
3
Interview Exclusive: Syriza and the capitalism-democracy breakup …
Stella: It confronts the roots of the problem, not just the epiphenomena. Nina: Precisely. What we are expecting, and saying, is that the ... «Shout Out UK, Jul 15»
4
How religious is ISIS?
... readily available from an education system which studies the many epiphenomena of religion without understanding the phenomenon itself. «Catholic Herald Online, Jul 15»
5
Atheism: an intellectually challenged world view
Fully determined epiphenomena produced by the laws of physics, which lack free will, volition of thought and capacity to reason, cannot do ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jun 15»
6
Looking for God in the sociology of religion and in Game of Thrones
Thus there has been a tendency in both disciplines to treat deities and sacred figures as projections of human needs, or as epiphenomena of ... «OUPblog, Jun 15»
7
Dear White Rappers: Stop Using the N-Word and Check Your Damn …
All in all, the tragicomic saga of the flood and its epiphenomena have delivered an irrevocable blow to the credibility of the current coalition ... «Daily Beast, Jun 15»
8
Could Consciousness Transfer Into Another Body?
I'm also not entirely sure of the primacy of the physical, relegating consciousness to epiphenomena. I like the Vedic notion that a ripple of desire set ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
9
The Trio of the Serious: Geopolitical Turmoil in the Middle East
... epiphenomena of pre-modern mode of production, and would soon go away with the progress of socialism. Both were wrong. Ethnicity is in fact post-modern.". «UNC Chapell Hill, May 15»
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Holier than thou?: The anti-imperialist versus the local activist
... and regional social struggles become nothing but simple epiphenomena, micro instances, or unmediated local derivatives of that domination. «Open Democracy, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Epiphenomena [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/epiphenomena>. May 2024 ».
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