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phenomenological

phenomenological

1 9.9
About how people experience and notice their own thoughts and feelings
  • adjective
  • /ˌfɛnəˈmɛnəˌlɒdʒɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fenomenológico
  • 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.

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Examples

  • We see the importance of including phenomenological accounts of experience in the study of African American men.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The researcher employed a phenomenological approach to capture the unique experiences of patients undergoing treatment.

  • But he wants to include a "phenomenological study" to ask them about their experience.

    Academic text (1992)
  • What a wonderful phenomenological description of what goes on when we sense, when we grasp this turning right.

  • Unfortunately, researchers may find it difficult to combine phenomenological research with a developmental focus because of training within their home disciplines.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Other aspects of phenomenological experience are less often explored, such as emotions and meanings around sexual behavior.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The preceding stories provide mere glimpses into the phenomenological interpretations that participants made regarding their lives as students.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The results from these questionnaires were used to construct the phenomenological interview questions and to gather descriptive information about parents' perceptions.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Ward, DiPaolo, and Popson (2009) conducted open-ended phenomenological interviews with female student leaders.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Maykut and Moorehouse (1994) described the phenomenological position as "oriented toward the discovery of salient propositions."

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

experiential
vsphenomenological
10 6.5

Based on what people do, not on ideas

focuses on studying and describing personal consciousness rather than just having experience
perceptional
vsphenomenological
7.7

Relating to how someone notices things using the senses

concerns analysis and description of perceived consciousness rather than sensory processes

How Experiential

phenomenological
  • Specialized
1 9.9
experiential
10 6.5
empirical
  • Formal
62 5.9
descriptive
28 4.0
theoretical
133 6.3

Surface Forms

phenomenological positive

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.