Wordology

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The study of words. rare, uncountable

    "A student may learn whole volumes of scientific wordology, and graduate from the school in which he has been educated with as little knowledge of the objects to which they apply as a barnacle has of ship building."

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"A student may learn whole volumes of scientific wordology, and graduate from the school in which he has been educated with as little knowledge of the objects to which they apply as a barnacle has of ship building."

Etymology

From word + -ology.

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