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Revision as of 13:37, 22 July 2002
Informally, an ology is an academic discipline ending in -ology. Such words are formed from Greek or Latin roots with the terminal -ology meaning "words about".
"An ology. He gets an ology and he says he's failed. You get an ology, you're a scientist!" Maureen Lipman, in a 1980s British Telecom TV ad
Here is a list of some ologies:
- Anthropology, words about mankind
- Biology, words about life
- Neurology, words about nerves
- Psychology, words about souls
- Sociology, words about society
and here are a lot more, filtered from a word list:
- Amphibology
- Anthropology
- Assyriology
- Astrology
- Axiology
- Biology
- Cardiology
- Climatology
- Cohomology
- Cosmology
- Cryptology
- Cytology
- Ecology
- Embryology
- Entomology
- Enzymology
- Epidemiology
- Epistemology
- Ethnology
- Ethology
- Etymology
- Geochronology
- Geology
- Gerontology
- Haplology
- Herpetology
- Histology
- Horology
- Hydrology
- Lithology
- Meteorology
- Methodology
- Morphology
- Musicology
- Mycology
- Mythology
- Neurology
- Neuropathology
- Neurophysiology
- Numerology
- Oncology
- Ontology
- Ophthalmology
- Osteology
- Parapsychology
- Pathology
- Petrology
- Pharmacology
- Phenomenology
- Philology
- Phonology
- Physiology
- Psychobiology
- Psychology
- Psychophysiology
- Radiology
- Rheology
- Seismology
- Serology
- Sociology
- Technology
- Teleology
- Teratology
- Terminology
- Theology
- Topology
- Toxicology
- Typology
- Zoology
See also:
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