Associations to the word «Epiphenomenon»

Wiktionary

EPIPHENOMENON, noun. (medicine) A symptom that develops during the course of a disease that is not connected to the disease.
EPIPHENOMENON, noun. (philosophy) (psychology) A mental state or process that is an incidental byproduct of physiological events in the brain or nervous system.
EPIPHENOMENON, noun. Any state, process, or other activity that is the result of another.

Dictionary definition

EPIPHENOMENON, noun. A secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon.

Wise words

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad