phenomenalness

Noun

phenomenalness (uncountable)

1. 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...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...
   • 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...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...

   Synonyms:

   phenomenality