Definition of "phenomenological" [phenomenological]

• Of or relating to phenomenology, or consistent with the principles of phenomenology. (adjective)
• Using the method of phenomenology, by which the observer examines the data without trying to provide an explanation of them. (adjective)

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• "Why, unlike the physicist, does the biologist consider that some proportion of a certain phenomenological distribution of effects he observes are in "error"?"
• "Their evolutionary approach is phenomenological, which is A-O. K., but they draw some feels-too-good-to-be-true conclusions therefrom, ie that cultural specificity is immune to alien encroachment."
• "Nel Noddings 'approach is to examine how caring is actually experienced (what we might describe as a phenomenological analysis)."