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Noun [English]

IPA: /fɪˌnɒmɪˈnɒləd͡ʒi/ [UK], /fɪˌnɑməˈnɑləd͡ʒi/ [US] Forms: phenomenologies [plural]
enPR: fĭ-nä'-mə-nälʹə-jē [US] Etymology: From phenomenon + -logy, from Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon, “thing appearing to view”), hence "the study of what shows itself (to consciousness)". According to Martin Heidegger's Introduction to Phenomenological Research, "the expression “phenomenology” first appears in the eighteenth century in Christian Wolff’s School, in Lambert’s Neues Organon, in connection with analogous developments popular at the time, like dianoiology and alethiology, and means a theory of illusion, a doctrine for avoiding illusion." (p.3) Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|phenomenon|logy}} phenomenon + -logy, {{der|en|grc|φαινόμενον||thing appearing to view}} Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon, “thing appearing to view”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} phenomenology (countable and uncountable, plural phenomenologies)
  1. (philosophy) The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Philosophy
    Sense id: en-phenomenology-en-noun-pC3JdQk3 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
  2. (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Philosophy Translations (philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena): fenomenologia [feminine] (Catalan), 現象學 /现象学 (jin⁶ zoeng⁶ hok⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 現象學 /现象学 (xiànxiàngxué) (Chinese Mandarin), fenomenologie [feminine] (Czech), fenomenologie [feminine] (Dutch), fenomenologio (Esperanto), fenomenologia (Finnish), phénoménologie (French), Phänomenologie [feminine] (German), φαινομενολογία (fainomenología) [feminine] (Greek), घटनाविज्ञान (ghaṭnāvijñān) (Hindi), दृश्यप्रपंचशास्त्र (dŕśyaprapañcśāstra) (Hindi), संवृतिशास्त्र (samvŕtiśāstra) (Hindi), परिघटनाविज्ञान (parighaṭnāvijñān) (Hindi), fenomenológia (Hungarian), fenomenologi (Indonesian), fenomenologia [feminine] (Italian), 現象学 (genshōgaku) (alt: げんしょうがく) (Japanese), បាតុភូតវិទ្យា (pat to puet vit tyea) (Khmer), 현상학 (hyeonsanghak) (alt: 現象學) (Korean), fenomenologi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fenomenologi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), fenomenologia [feminine] (Polish), fenomenologia [feminine] (Portuguese), феноменоло́гия (fenomenológija) [feminine] (Russian), fenomenología [feminine] (Spanish), fenomenologi (Swedish), hiện tượng học (Vietnamese)
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  3. (medicine, philosophy of medical sciences) An approach to clinical practice which places undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs and symptoms, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-phenomenology-en-noun---N~UUwk Topics: human-sciences, medicine, philosophy, sciences
  4. (physics) The use of theoretical models to make predictions that can be tested through experiments. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-phenomenology-en-noun-v0~5dArx Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Synonyms: phænomenology [obsolete] Derived forms: dual phenomenology, heterophenomenology, nonphenomenological, phenomenological, phenomenologically, phenomenological reduction, phenomenologist, postphenomenology, postphenomenological, psychophenomenology Related terms: noumenology

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