phenomenological
- adjective
- /ˌfɛnəˈmɛnəˌlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
- We used a qualitative, phenomenological approach to explore the experiences, feelings, and ideas of living kidney donors.
- phenomenological study
- phenomenological approach
- phenomenological experience
And this to me is the deepest phenomenological difference between time and space, in fact.
- And this to me is the deepest phenomenological difference between time and space, in fact.
- And then I learned that all his arguments came from his reading of this phenomenological and existential tradition.
- He's going to bring up the stage of that or the shape of consciousness that followed Stoicism in his phenomenological exposition of it.
- What a wonderful phenomenological description of what goes on when we sense, when we grasp this turning right.
- Of the totality of our interior phenomenological existence.
Examples
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We see the importance of including phenomenological accounts of experience in the study of African American men.
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The researcher employed a phenomenological approach to capture the unique experiences of patients undergoing treatment.
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But he wants to include a "phenomenological study" to ask them about their experience.
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What a wonderful phenomenological description of what goes on when we sense, when we grasp this turning right.
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Unfortunately, researchers may find it difficult to combine phenomenological research with a developmental focus because of training within their home disciplines.
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Other aspects of phenomenological experience are less often explored, such as emotions and meanings around sexual behavior.
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The preceding stories provide mere glimpses into the phenomenological interpretations that participants made regarding their lives as students.
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The results from these questionnaires were used to construct the phenomenological interview questions and to gather descriptive information about parents' perceptions.
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Ward, DiPaolo, and Popson (2009) conducted open-ended phenomenological interviews with female student leaders.
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Maykut and Moorehouse (1994) described the phenomenological position as "oriented toward the discovery of salient propositions."
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Synonyms
Based on what people do, not on ideas
Relating to how someone notices things using the senses
How Experiential
- Specialized
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
phenomenological = phenomenology (semi-transparent) = phenomenon + ical
Although formed by a regular adjectival derivation from 'phenomenology', the sense refers specifically to a specialized philosophical method, which is more technical and may not be obvious to general learners.
Etymology
Phenomenological comes from phenomenon, from a Greek root that means 'to appear'. So in psychology it means looking at how things appear to a person, their experience and how they notice their own thoughts and feelings.