The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. 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.
n. A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
n. A philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings.
n. A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A description, history, or explanation of phenomena.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A description or history of phenomena.
n. In Kantian terminology, a division of the metaphysics of nature which determines motion and rest merely in respect to the mode of representing them as phenomena of sense.
n. In Hegelian philosophy, the exposition of the evolution of knowledge.
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n. 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
Word Usage
"Instead of using Helmholtz's terminology, Stumpf, as did most historians, preferred the term phenomenology to designate the study of phenomenal experience, which occupied center stage in the fields of physiology and psychology."