Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A branch of learning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A termination in many words taken from the Greek or formed of Greek elements, especially words denoting a science or department of knowledge. See the etymology.
- n. A termination of some nouns of Greek origin (few or none of this kind being newly formed) in which -ology implies ‘a gathering.’ Examples are anthology, a gathering of flowers (distinguished from anthology, the science of flowers, a word of modern formation), and carpology.
- n. A science the name of which ends in -ology; hence, any science or branch of knowledge.
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial Any branch of learning, especially one ending in “-logy”.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge
Etymologies
- From the suffix -ology in the names of many sciences (Wiktionary)
- From -ology. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Tehran-ology is the only way to try and understand it.”
“(Note: I've filed this under "general" since AcmeGirl doesn't specify if her ology is in the physical or biological sciences.)”
“Which makes me wonder whether women in - ology don't travel to conferences as much as their male counterparts (because of family obligations, etc.)?”
“Unlike the biomedical fields, it is rare in - ology to have six digit multiple year grants which can fund an entire post-doc or PhD, so the process of grant-writing is much more ubiquitous.”
“There simply aren't any career opportunities for someone with a BS in - ology in Hometown.”
“Professor Alan Marquand, whose voice in matters of Greek archæology is second in authority to none, is even of opinion that the Corinthian capital is of lotus derivation.”
“Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archæology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.”
“Response: I study - ology, which is one of the natural sciences.”
“I dropped off my dissertation to be bound and one of the women there asked me how I got interested in - ology.”
“No "ism" or "ology" - regardless of purity of intent or moral foundation - is immune to corruption and abuse.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ology’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
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Suffix
-able, ade, age, al, an, ian, ance, ant, ar, ard, arian, ary and 60 more...
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suffix (regular, compound, hyphenate)
cool suffixes to add to anything (noun, verb, adjective) to create a word or compound word.
examples: gonzo = gonzoid ; hype = hyphy ; future = futurama
goto the prefix...zoid, o-rama, y, ular, ness, ology, chan, zilla, ola, ism, ist, centric and 4 more...
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Unusual -ologies
morology, tidology, aerology, tyrology, orology, barology, tocology, doorology, ology, battology, dittology, cacology and 244 more...
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