plural phenomenologies
Definition of phenomenology
1 : the study of the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a preface to or a part of philosophy
2a(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
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The first known use of phenomenology was circa 1797
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