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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
phe·nom·e·nol·o·gy       [fi-nom-uh-nol-uh-jee] Pronunciation Key
–noun Philosophy.
1.the study of phenomena.
2.the system of Husserl and his followers stressing the description of phenomena.

[Origin: 1790–1800; phenomen(on) + -o- + -logy]

phe·nom·e·no·log·i·cal       [fi-nom-uh-nl-oj-i-kuhl] Pronunciation Key, phe·nom·e·no·log·ic, adjective
phe·nom·e·no·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
phe·nom·e·nol·o·gist, noun
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
phe·nom·e·nol·o·gy       (fĭ-nŏm'ə-nŏl'ə-jē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness.
  2. A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.

phe·nom'e·no·log'i·cal (-nə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl) adj., phe·nom'e·no·log'i·cal·ly adv., phe·nom'e·nol'o·gist n.
Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
phenomenology 
1797, from Ger. Phänomenologie, used as the title of the fourth part of the "Neues Organon" of Ger. physicist Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-77), coined from Gk. phainomenon (see phenomenon) + -logia, from -logos "one who deals with certain topics." Psychological sense, esp. in Gestalt theory, is from 1930.

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phenomenology

noun
a philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account 

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Phenomenology

Phe*nom`e*nol"o*gy\, n. [Phenomenon + -logy: cf. F. ph['e]nom['e]nologie.] A description, history, or explanation of phenomena. "The phenomenology of the mind." --Sir W. Hamilton.

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