A Topical Dictionary: Search for ology

Dictionary Results For "ology" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From the suffix “-ology” in the names of many sciences

Pronunciation

(RP): IPA: ˈɒlədʒi/,
(US): , IPA: /ˈɑlədʒi/,

Noun

Any branch of learning, especially one ending in “-logy”.

Related terms

-logy

Quotations

1902: William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience - The ideal world, for them, is not a world of facts, but only of the meaning of facts; it is a point of view for judging facts. It appertains to a different "-ology," ...

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ology \Ol"o*gy\, n. [See -logy.]
A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of
knowledge.
[1913 Webster]

He had a smattering of mechanics, of physiology,
geology, mineralogy, and all other ologies whatsoever.
--De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet ology
n : an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending)
for some unidentified branch of knowledge

Moby Dictionary
academic discipline , academic specialty , applied science , area ,
arena , art , concern , department of knowledge , discipline , domain ,
field , field of inquiry , field of study , natural science , province ,
pure science , science , social science , specialty , sphere , study ,
technicology , technics , technology