-jē, -ji noun
( -es )
Etymology: phenomeno n + -logy
1. : a branch of a science dealing with the description and classification of phenomena
2.
[German phänomenologie, from phänomenon phenomenon (from Late Latin phaenomenon ) + logie -logy]
a. Kantianism : a division of metaphysics that treats of motion and rest as predicables of things
b. Hegelianism : a doctrine of the growth of science or knowledge : the progress of mind from the lowest to the highest stages
c. : phaneroscopy
d. Husserlian philosophy : a discipline endeavoring to lay foundations for all sciences by describing the formal structures of phenomena or of both actual and possible material essences that are given through a suspension of the natural attitude in pure acts of intuition — compare epoche