Meaning of -ology | Babel Free

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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