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ology

[ ol-uh-jee ]

noun

, Informal or Facetious.
, plural ol·o·gies.
  1. any science or branch of knowledge.


ology

/ ˈɒlədʒɪ /

noun

  1. informal.
    a science or other branch of knowledge
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ology1

First recorded in 1795–1805; extracted from words like biology, geology, etc., where the element -logy is preceded by the connecting vowel -o-; -o-
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ology1

C19: abstracted from words with this ending, such as theology, biology, etc; see -logy
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Example Sentences

The word “logic” comes from the Greek term “logos” which is the root for our suffix -ology.

From Salon

“I made this error of doing economics and policy, instead of what I was really interested in, which was the animals. I could have done conservation biology, but I was too intimidated by the ‘ology.’”

“Hidden Brain,” hosted by Shankar Vedantam, explores concepts from cognitive science, psychology, sociology, anthropology — basically all the -ologies! — and how these concepts are expressed in our lives.

Every scientific project that persists gets an ‘-ology’, and the study of sociable viruses is no different.

From Nature

Categories often come with an education-related twist, such as questions on “-ology” or surveys about the best job you could have in college.

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