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PHRENOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does phrenology mean?
• PHRENOLOGY (noun)
The noun PHRENOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
Familiarity information: PHRENOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("phrenology" is a kind of...):
craniology (the scientific study of the skulls of various human races)
Derivation:
phrenological (of or relating to phrenology)
phrenologist (someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull)
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