phenomenology
Americannoun
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the study of phenomena.
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the system of Husserl and his followers stressing the description of phenomena.
noun
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the movement founded by Husserl that concentrates on the detailed description of conscious experience, without recourse to explanation, metaphysical assumptions, and traditional philosophical questions
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the science of phenomena as opposed to the science of being
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of phenomenology
First recorded in 1790–1800; phenomen(on) + -o- + -logy
Example Sentences
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But their phenomenology, he concludes, is nothing like our consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
In IIT’s understanding of consciousness, the painter brilliantly renders the phenomenology of the natural world onto a two-dimensional canvas.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
"Stellar phenomenology is extremely rich, and no two stars are the same if looked at closely enough."
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023
Instead of starting with the purely mental idea of a thing, phenomenology suggests that we reflect on how the experience of a thing affects us.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In the last, as Julian Schmidt says, the ever varying scenery is made a 'frame for a kind of phenomenology of mankind.'
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred
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