logology
English
Etymology
logo- + -ology. In the sense “recreational linguistics” popularized by Dmitri Borgmann in Language on Vacation (1965).
Noun
logology (countable and uncountable, plural logologies)
- (now uncommon) The scientific study of words.
- Synonym: lexicology
- The study of logos (visual symbols or emblems).
- The study of words for recreational purposes with an emphasis on letter patterns.
- Synonym: recreational linguistics
- 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, Scribner, page 124:
- [Another] such curiosity may be stumbled upon by someone interested in logology and in command of more than one language.
- (religion) The study of words in search for divine truth.
- Coordinate term: numerology
- (linguistics) The field of recreational linguistics.
Derived terms
Translations
scientific study of words
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study of logos
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study of words for recreation
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religion: study of words in search for God
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