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Phrenology

//frənˈɑlədʒi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull. countable, historical, uncountable

    "Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes."

  2. 2
    a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties wordnet

Etymology

From phreno- + -logy.

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