~existential.~ Of, relating to, or affirming existence; grounded in existence or the experience of living. ~existential dialogue.~ A unique individual person with the wholeness of his being is present, open to, and relates to the other seen in his unique individual wholeness; an exchange in which two persons transcend themselves and participate in the other's being; an interior unification; a mutual common union in being. ~existential experience.~ Contact with reality with the whole of one's being; involves all that a man _is_ as opposed to experiencing through one or several faculties. ~existentialism.~ Philosophy based on phenomenological studies of reality; centers on the analysis of existence particularly of the individual human being, stresses the freedom and responsibility of the individual, regards human existence as not completely describable or understandable in idealistic or scientific terms. ~here and now.~ An individual's unique experience of his present spatial and temporal reality including his past experiences and expectations of the future. ~humanistic nursing.~ A theory and practice that rest on an existential philosophy, value experiencing and the evolving of the "new," and aim at phenomenological description of the art-science of nursing viewed as a lived intersubjective transactional experience; nursing seen within its human context. ~intersubjective.~ Pertaining to two or more human persons and their shared between; a relationship of two or more human beings in which each is the originator of human acts and responses. {122} ~lived dialogue.~ A form of existential intersubjective relating expressed in being with and doing with the other who is regarded as a presence (as opposed to an object); a lived call and response. ~lived world.~ The everyday world as it is experienced in the here and now. ~metanursing.~ A discipline designed to deal critically with nursing, ontological study of nursing; study of the phenomenon of nursing; a critical study of nursing within its human context. ~metatheoretical.~ Transcending theory; ontological inquiry from which theory may be derived. ~nursology.~ Study of the phenomenon of nursing aimed toward the development of nursing theory. ~phenomenology.~ The descriptive study of phenomena. ~phenomenon.~ An observable fact, event, occurrence or circumstance; an appearance or immediate object of awareness in experience. A phenomenon may be objective (that is, external to the person aware of it) or subjective (for example, a thought or feeling). ~prereflective experience.~ Primary awareness or perception of reality not yet thought about; spontaneous experience; immediate experience or perception. ~presence.~ A mode of being available or open in a situation with the wholeness of one's unique individual being; a gift of the self which can only be given freely, invoked, or evoked.