noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˌnɒˈsɒləd͡ʒi/
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General-American:/ˌnoʊˈsɑləd͡ʒi/
1
noun
Meaning 1
A treatise or written classification of diseases.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
2003: Thomas Arnold ... constructed a nosology of insanity explicitly on the basis of the Lockean philosophy of mind — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 312)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: diagnostics
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: medicine, medical specialty
History
Etymology
From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “discourse, branch of knowledge”).
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Basque:
nosologia
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Catalan:
nosologia
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Czech:
nosologie
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Dutch:
nosologie
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
French:
nosologie
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
German:
Nosologie
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Greek:
νοσολογία
(nosología)
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Indonesian:
nosologi
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Italian:
nosologia
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Norwegian Bokmål:
nosologi
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Polish:
nozologia
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Portuguese:
nosologia
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Spanish:
nosología
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease
Swedish:
nosologi
— the systematic investigation or classification of disease