Phrenology Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ology

Phrenology has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

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

phrenology

The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.

See Also

phrenological psychognomy morphology bump phrenologist have one's head read craniosophic phrenologically

Related Terms

phrenological psychognomy morphology bump phrenologist have one's head read craniosophic phrenologically organoscopy bumpology discredit skull character cranioscopy science

Broader Terms (hypernyms)

craniology

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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