MEANING
Relating to the detailed description of experiences as they appear to those having them.
Use it for
describing an inquiry into lived experience; distinguishing first-person meaning from an external causal explanation; identifying the focus of a qualitative research approachIdentifies an approach centered on lived experience rather than treating experience merely as evidence for an external causal model. Academic functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- a phenomenological approach
- phenomenological analysis
- phenomenological description
On the page
The interviews support a phenomenological analysis of living with uncertainty.
A phenomenological reading asks how time is experienced by the narrator rather than only how events are ordered.
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Word forms
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- phenomenological
Usage notes
Relational adjective. Normally attributive; no natural ordinary comparative/superlative. Register: technical. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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