-ology

Definitions

added to an ordinary English word to create a name for a (possibly non-existent) field of study.

humorous, morpheme, often

Equivalents

Examples

“Qell, he knows all about mineralogy, and geology, and astrology, and every thing a'most, except what he ought to know⟳, and that is dollar-ology.”

“...so long as a mere human word-ology is suffered to remain⟳ here, clogging all with its deadly impotence...”

“It seems he'd been making original researches in anthropology, or folk-lore-ology, or something like⟳ that.”

“He gets an -ology and says he failed!”

“Yet it is interesting to research⟳ the tattoo-ology of Katona right after a yoga class.”

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