phenomenologistn.
/fᵻˌnɒmᵻˈnɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /fəˌnɑməˈnɑlədʒəst/ A person, esp. a philosopher, who adheres to the theories of phenomenology or employs phenomenological methods or techniques. Also occasionally: an expert on or student of a particular class of phenomena.
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1865 J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel I. i. 19 He who shall make it his business to watch the gathering of the materials for the seething..will be the Phaenomenologist or Historian of the Seething.
1874 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 707 I insist upon the present testimony of my consciousness as evidence upon which I can rely as not only actually veracious as most phenomenologists would grant, but absolutely true in the sense above set forth.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 328 An illuminated scroll of ancient Irish vellum, the work of Irish artists, was presented to the distinguished phenomenologist.
1951 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 4 175 Most modern Existentialists are phenomenologists. They do not however totally deny the existence of external reality.
1967 J. F. Corso Exper. Psychol. Sensory Behavior i. 9 Those psychologists who emphasize the importance of experience in psychology and use subjective..terms to describe experience are called phenomenologists.
1990 L. Picknett Encycl. Paranormal 61/1 To say that something is ‘all in the mind’ or ‘just imagination’ is effectively to dismiss it, yet phenomenologists know that such an attitude is profoundly mistaken.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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