phenomenology

1. The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. (uncountable)
2. A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl. (uncountable)
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. (uncountable)
4. The translation of theory into measurable or observable predictions that can be used to experimentally test it. (uncountable)

Plural phenomenologies