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Origin: Greek suffix -ology

Lexicology has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language

2

The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.

See Also
lexical lexicologist linguistics semantics lexicon lexicological semantic lexicologies
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linguistics
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
onomastics toponymy
Rhyming Words
dogy fogy bogy logy pogy ology loogy elogy boogy alogy agogy dilogy oölogy oology eulogy perogy urology geology analogy trilogy
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