phenomenology

/fəˌnɑməˈnɑlədʒi/
noun
  1. A philosophical method or approach that studies the structures of experience and consciousness from a first-person point of view.
    • The philosopher Edmund Husserl is known as the founder of modern phenomenology.
    • Phenomenology asks what it is like to actually experience something.
    • In her class, we used phenomenology to analyze how people perceive time.
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