Phenomena

During class, as the whole class was reading the article “A Masters Degree in Masculinity” by Jessica Bennett together. I came across a word in which I was not familiar with; ‘Phenomena’. I at first thought that this word looked extremely similar to the word ‘phenomenon’ which also I was not familiar with. I’ve seen these two words many times when reading articles, books, or even posts on the internet, but never bothered finding out what it means. The word ‘Phenomena’ according to the Merriam-webster dictionary had no definite meaning but tells me that it is the plural form of the word ‘phenomenon’ instead. So according to the Merriam-webster dictionary ‘phenomenon’ means a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question. In plural form, it would mean an observable fact or event. In the article piece, the word appears in the sentence “It would also allow scholars to take seemingly unrelated phenomena – make suicide and the fact that men are less likely to talk about their feelings”. Now that I know what the word means I can interpret that this context means that scholars would now look into what it may seem insignificant clear fact that men are less likely to talk about their feelings.