0 a phenomenon (= something that exists and can be seen, felt, etc.) that exists at the same time as another one but is not related to it:
To him, nationalism is an independent cultural construct and not just an epiphenomenon in the process of capitalist development.
Though epiphenomenon, inattention is a valuable clinical index of delirium.
This experimental evidence fully discredits the epiphenomenon charge.
From these results, we suggest that the reported uninversion bias for why and negatives may be an epiphenomenon of input frequencies.
But this will not make the immune system a biological epiphenomenon since it is an evolved adaptation in origin.
In closing, it is interesting to consider the possibility that cross-linguistic transfer could be an epiphenomenon of speech production.
I propose to consider cross-linguistic transfer as a manifestation of speech production errors, in other words an epiphenomenon of speech production.
There are no principles of history and, in this sense, history is an epiphenomenon.