epiphenomenon

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Probably that thinking is just an epiphenomenon, a by-product, and afterthought, if you will.

View all »
Definitions (8)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun A secondary phenomenon that results from and accompanies another: "Exploitation of one social class or ethnic group by another [is] an epiphenomenon of real differences in power between social groups” (Harper's).
  2. noun Pathology An additional condition or symptom in the course of a disease, not necessarily connected with the disease.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (36)

  • It would be astonishing if oscillation were a mere epiphenomenon, but there's not yet a definitive statement about what it does in processing. —  Omni: January 1993
  • For every Internet epiphenomenon promoted by the blond automatons of cable news there exists an army of pundits offering a cynical, countervailing view. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • "The pigment is a cue to get the mantle in register so it builds the right shaped shell, and is only an epiphenomenon reflecting neural activity," Oster said. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • In this sense, consciousness is an epiphenomenon or metaphenomenon of the brain's machinations. —  Sentient Developments
  • Suzan Mazur: Do you think the emerging complexity of biology might require a new mathematics or is it the reverse that the mathematics of straightforward linear causality is inappropriate in the first place and needs to be replaced by math for which the emergent complexity of life is an epiphenomenon of more fundamental physical processes that these mathematics model? —  ScreenTalk
More examples »
 

Tags

epiphenomenon hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 41 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. New Latin, from Greek ἐπί, on, upon, + φαινόμενον, phenomenon: see phenomenon.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ɛpɪfəˈnɑmɛnɑn/
by American Heritage
by Lee Davis-Thalbourne

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

statuette · cacophony · grit · biennial · Pterodactyl

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich