Describe an old wives'tale as something-ology and almost anyone will believe it.
From the newscientist.com
Peaceful nuke-ology is the route to weaponry taken by nearly every tinpot dictator.
From the independent.co.uk
He wanted it to be Digression-ology, which is what he says he does onstage.
From the suntimes.com
Yet it is interesting to research the tattoo-ology of Katona right after a yoga class.
From the guardian.co.uk
If Buy-ology itself is any indication, these companies got ripped off.
From the chron.com
Apart from that we have some of the most unique gee-ology in the world.
From the economist.com
Really, the only way to top this degree would be to get a doctorate in Rolling Stones-ology.
From the cnn.com
These past two trips have been a crash course in Celtic-ology.
From the bostonherald.com
The Arboretum staff taught students a class called leaf-ology.
From the desmoinesregister.com
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An informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge
-logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek language ending in ' (-logia). The earliest English examples were anglicizations of the French ', which was in turn inherited from the Latin ''''.
(Ologies (series)) The Ologies is a series of illustrated fantasy books presented in a fictional encyclopedic format. They are published by Templar Publishing in the United Kingdom and Candlewick Press in the United States. ...
("Ologist") The doctor or specialist whose expertise is of no real use because they did not listen to the pHD and family or their bias caused them to misread the situation.
(ologist) The person who studies
(ologist) a specialist in the study of
Studying something, as in epidemiology - the study of epidemics.
Is derived from Logos, which means study
Field of inquiry, concern . . .specialty or discipline**