n.
Pronunciation: fi- ˌ nä-m ə - ' nä-l ə -j ē
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -gies
Etymology: German Phänomenologie, from Phänomenon phenomenon + -logie -logy
Date: circa 1797
1 : the study of the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a preface to or a part of philosophy
2 a (1) : a philosophical movement that describes the formal structure of the objects of awareness and of awareness itself in abstraction from any claims concerning existence (2) : the typological classification of a class of phenomena <the phenomenology of religion> b : an analysis produced by phenomenological investigation
– phe · nom · e · nol · o · gist \ -jist \ noun