phrenology

English

Etymology

From phreno- +‎ -logy.

Noun

phrenology (countable and uncountable, plural phrenologies)

(medicine, biology) The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.

Synonyms

cranioscopy

Related terms

phrenologist, phrenological
psychognomy

Translations

the discredited "science" or pseudo-science of phrenology

Catalan: frenologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: frenologia (fi)
French: phrénologie (fr) f
Galician: frenoloxía (gl) f
German: Phrenologie (de) f

Hungarian: frenológia
Italian: frenologia (it) f
Portuguese: frenologia (pt)
Russian: френоло́гия (ru) f (frenológija)
Spanish: frenología (es) f
Turkish: frenoloji (tr)
Volapük: frenolog

See also

have one's head read

Anagrams

nephrology

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