phenomenological

adjective more phenomenological · most phenomenological

1. Of or relating to phenomenology, or consistent with the principles of phenomenology. Phenomenological "things" are not commonsense objects or sense data but the phenomena in their presentation, grasped as intentional objects.
2. Using the method of phenomenology, by which the observer examines data and other subjective effects without trying to provide a pathophysiological explanation of them, especially in diagnosing disease states and in nosology and other forms of taxonomy. Ross and his colleagues [...] drew on prior research...to suggest that addictive gambling resembles dependence on stimulants (like cocaine) more than it does alcoholism, and hence enlarges our understanding of addiction more fully than purely behavioural criteria would do. The worry is that a behavi