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The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
Examples
- Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: craniology
Etymology tree English phreno- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English phrenology From phreno- + -logy.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
frenologie
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Armenian:
գանգագուշակություն
(gangagušakutʻyun)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Armenian:
գանգագիտություն
(gangagitutʻyun)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Asturian:
frenoloxía
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Basque:
frenologia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Bulgarian:
френология
(frenologija)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Catalan:
frenologia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Chinese Mandarin:
骨相學 /骨相学
(gǔxiàngxué)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Czech:
frenologie
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Danish:
frenologi
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Dutch:
frenologie
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Estonian:
frenoloogia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Finnish:
frenologia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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French:
phrénologie
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Galician:
frenoloxía
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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German:
Phrenologie
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Hindi:
कपालविद्या
(kapālvidyā)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Hungarian:
frenológia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Icelandic:
höfuðlagsfræði
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Indonesian:
frenologi
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Italian:
frenologia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Japanese:
骨相学
(kossōgaku)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Kazakh:
френология
(frenologiä)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Korean:
골상학
(golsanghak)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Lithuanian:
frenologija
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Mongolian:
френологи
(frenologi)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Norwegian:
frenologi
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Polish:
frenologia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Portuguese:
frenologia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Romanian:
frenologia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Russian:
френоло́гия
(frenológija)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Slovak:
frenológia
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Spanish:
frenología
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Swedish:
frenologi
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Turkish:
frenoloji
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Ukrainian:
френологія
(frenolohija)
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Uzbek:
frenologiya
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Vietnamese:
não tướng học
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology
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Volapük:
frenolog
— the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology