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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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phenomenology Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • religion: Alistair's second major area of research has been the phenomenology of religion.

Possessives

  • pain: For another, why not simply say that the functional role itself constitutes pain's affective phenomenology?

Converse of object

  • explore: Various schools of digital art criticism have emerged, but they have not greatly explored the phenomenology and ontology of digital art.

Adjective modifier

  • transcendental: The crisis of the European sciences and transcendental phenomenology.

Noun used with modifier

  • particle: It aims to foster world-class research in particle physics phenomenology.
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