graphology
Americannoun
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the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
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Linguistics. the study of systems of writing; grammatology.
noun
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the study of handwriting, esp to analyse the writer's character
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linguistics the study of writing systems
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Some people think we can do personality evaluations from a person’s handwriting, which is graphology, but it’s not a valid science.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2018
Maria Konnikova returns to look at a tool prosecutors have used for decades: handwriting analysis, or graphology.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2017
Americans looked toward France, where the discipline of graphology was picking up popularity thanks to priest and archeologist Jean-Hippolyte Michon.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2013
If taken away from fortune-tellers and given serious study, graphology may yet become a useful handmaiden of psychology, pos-sibly revealing important traits, attitudes, values of the "hidden" personality.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second volume treats of epileptics, and discusses, among other things, their ergography, psychology, graphology, and anomalies of the field of vision.
From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina
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