CRANIOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craniologist mean? 

• CRANIOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun CRANIOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull

  Familiarity information: CRANIOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRANIOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

craniologist; phrenologist

Hypernyms ("craniologist" is a kind of...):

charlatan; mountebank (a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes)

Derivation:

craniology (the scientific study of the skulls of various human races)