PHENOMENOLOGY

noun (plural -gies) Etymology: German Phänomenologie, from Phänomenon phenomenon + -logie -logy Date: circa 1797 the study of the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a preface to or a part of philosophy, 2. a. a philosophical movement that describes the formal structure of the objects of awareness and of awareness itself in abstraction from any claims concerning existence, the typological classification of a class of phenomena , an analysis produced by phenomenological investigation, phenomenologist noun