What's the difference between noumenal and phenomenal?

Noumenal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is contended that Lewin's assumption that reported dreamless sleep indicates the presence of the screen without projections on its surface transcends development from the perceptual to the conceptual, to the noumenal.

Phenomenal


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
  • (2) Consider this from Forrester Research: 2bn smartphones generate raw data from built-in functions: accelerometers, cameras, and GPS chipsets – creating phenomenal insights about consumer, patient, and physician preferences.
  • (3) Walter has been speaking at events around the country, and says the feedback has been phenomenal.
  • (4) By now seemingly every print and online outlet has had a crack at explaining why the Sunday shows are so phenomenally useless.
  • (5) An obvious comparison, made by Gensler, is with the High Line in New York, the phenomenally successful park made out of an old railway viaduct, which like the River Park is long and thin.
  • (6) The background was hotter on one side of the sky and cooler on the other: a "dipole" that meant our galaxy was moving at a phenomenal relative speed, which could only be explained if there was a huge undiscovered distant structure somewhere in space, such as a supercluster of galaxies, pulling it (this was found later and is called the "great attractor").
  • (7) This phenomen may be discussed from the 30th minute after intake.
  • (8) It was found that (a) the suppressive effect, measured by frequency of phenomenal disappearance of the probe stimulus, declined sharply in proportion to the distance from the contour of the suppressor, and it declined more sharply near the center of the visual field and (b) the same effect increased in proportion to the contrast of the suppressor, but was independent of the width of the suppressor.
  • (9) The intercellular space of the stratum basale and stratum spinosum was usually dilated, exhibiting acantholytic phenomen.
  • (10) "'This has been a phenomenal year and a great welcome back into comedy for me," he said.
  • (11) Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian Watt’s wife, Johanna Basford, whose rise has neatly paralleled his (she is the author and illustrator of a phenomenally successful series of adult colouring books that have so far sold 15m copies) also told me at the launch: “They work harder than anyone I know.
  • (12) There’s also the radical and phenomenally powerful face-to-face meeting, which is often ignored because it actually requires management to show their face.
  • (13) Two hypotheses are identified in applying phenomenal geometry.
  • (14) It is a chain of ragged destitution, on the doorstep – sometimes literally – of phenomenal wealth generation.
  • (15) "[Gaga's] rise has been phenomenally fast, and to manage such a quick climb to the top is incredibly difficult.
  • (16) Any Olympic medal is a phenomenal achievement but having had three in the past I wanted a gold one to complete the collection."
  • (17) Did Mourinho really once say that Hazard might have overtaken Cristiano Ronaldo as the most phenomenal player on the planet bar Lionel Messi?
  • (18) The consequences of the phenomene on genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis are discussed.
  • (19) 1 the threshold of the resolution distance of square gratings having the same phenomenal frequencies (as observed in a 1985 experiment by Vardabasso and Zanuttini), although different areas, was checked.
  • (20) "The density of the archaeology, the scale of the buildings and the skill that was used to construct them are simply phenomenal.

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