noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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UK:/fɪˌnɒmɪˈnɒləd͡ʒi/
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US:fĭ-nä'-mə-nälʹə-jē
US:/fɪˌnɑməˈnɑləd͡ʒi/
CMU ARPABET:F AH0 N AA1 M AH0 N AA2 L AA0 G IY2
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noun
Meaning 1
The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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2
noun
Meaning 2
A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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3
noun
Meaning 3
An approach to clinical practice which places undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs and symptoms, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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5
noun
Meaning 5
a philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheh2-der. Proto-Hellenic *pháňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. Late Latin phaenomenonder. English phenomenon Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English phenomenology From phenomenon + -logy, from Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon, “thing appearing to view”), hence "the study of what shows itself (to consciousness)". According to Martin Heidegger's Introduction to Phenomenological Research, "the expression “phenomenology” first appears in the eighteenth century in Christian Wolff’s School, in Lambert’s Neues Organon, in connection with analogous developments popular at the time, like dianoiology and alethiology, and means a theory of illusion, a doctrine for avoiding illusion." (p.3)
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Catalan:
fenomenologia
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Chinese Cantonese:
現象學 /现象学
(jin6 zoeng6 hok6)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Chinese Mandarin:
現象學 /现象学
(xiànxiàngxué)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Czech:
fenomenologie
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Dutch:
fenomenologie
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Esperanto:
fenomenologio
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Finnish:
fenomenologia
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
French:
phénoménologie
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
German:
Phänomenologie
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Greek:
φαινομενολογία
(fainomenología)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Hindi:
घटनाविज्ञान
(ghaṭnāvijñān)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Hindi:
दृश्यप्रपंचशास्त्र
(dŕśyaprapañcśāstra)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Hindi:
संवृतिशास्त्र
(samvŕtiśāstra)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Hindi:
परिघटनाविज्ञान
(parighaṭnāvijñān)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Hungarian:
fenomenológia
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Indonesian:
fenomenologi
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Italian:
fenomenologia
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Japanese:
現象学
(genshōgaku)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Khmer:
បាតុភូតវិទ្យា
(pat to puet vit tyea)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Korean:
현상학
(hyeonsanghak)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Norwegian Bokmål:
fenomenologi
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Norwegian Nynorsk:
fenomenologi
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Polish:
fenomenologia
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Portuguese:
fenomenologia
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Russian:
феноменоло́гия
(fenomenológija)
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Spanish:
fenomenología
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Swedish:
fenomenologi
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena
Vietnamese:
hiện tượng học
— philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena