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phe·nom·e·nol·o·gy    Audio Help   [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]

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phe·nom·e·no·log·i·cal    Audio Help   [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
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phe·nom·e·nol·o·gy    Audio Help   (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.
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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.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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 

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Main Entry: phe·nom·e·nol·o·gy
Pronunciation: fi-"näm-&-'näl-&-jE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -gies
: the way in which one perceives and interprets events and one's relationship to them in contrast both to one's objective responses to stimuli and to any inferred unconscious motivation for one's behavior; also : a psychology based on the theory that phenomenology determines behavior —phe·nom·e·no·log·i·cal /fi-"näm-&n-&l-'äj-i-k&l/ adjective

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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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