noun. ['fəˈnɑːməˌnɑːlɑːˌgiː'] 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.
1. Noun, singular or mass The goal of phenomenology is to understand how others view the world, and how this view may vary from commonly held views by focusing on a person's subjective interpretations of what she experiences.