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phenomenologically

Variant of phenomenology

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

Origin: phenomenon + -logy

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