phenomenological

Variant of phenomenology

phenomenology definition

phe·nom·enol·ogy (fə näm′ə näl′ə jē)

noun

  1. the philosophical study of phenomena, as distinguished from ontology, the study of being; specif., such a study of perceptual experience in its purely subjective aspect
  2. a descriptive or classificatory account of the phenomena of a given body of knowledge, without any further attempt at explanation

Etymology: phenomenon + -logy

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