Adjective[edit] sophomoric â(comparative more sophomoric, superlative most sophomoric) 1  of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore.  conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature.
Phenomenology (psychology) Phenomenology is the study of subjective experience. It is an approach to psychological subject matter that has its roots in the philosophical work of Edmund Husserl. Early phenomenologists such as Husserl, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty conducted philosophical investigations of consciousness in the early 20th century.
phrenology. n. 1. (Medicine) (formerly) the branch of science concerned with localization of function in the human brain, esp determination of the strength of the faculties by the shape and size of the skull overlying the parts of the brain thought to be responsible for them.