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phenomenologically

adverb

phenomenologically is spelled P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L-L-Y: 18 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, phenomenologically means “In a manner characteristic of phenomenology or of phenomenological philosophy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in phenomenologically?

Letters18: P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is phenomenologically?

Phenomenologically appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What does phenomenologically mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

  1. 1

    In a manner characteristic of phenomenology or of phenomenological philosophy.

  2. 2

    In a manner which places primary or undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs, symptoms and behaviors, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies.

    The DSM may be viewed as a behavioristically, phenomenologically oriented nosology which often groups unlike disease states together into categories, and in its behaviorist approach, can ignore distinctions between pathophysiological proces

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Phenomenologically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in a manner characteristic of phenomenology:

LanguageWords
Portuguesefenomenologicamente

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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