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ology

American  
[ol-uh-jee] / ˈɒl ə dʒi /

noun

Informal or Facetious.

plural

ologies

  1. any science or branch of knowledge.

ology British  
/ ˈɒlədʒɪ /

noun

  1. informal a science or other branch of knowledge

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Etymology

Origin of ology

First recorded in 1795–1805; extracted from words like biology, geology, etc., where the element -logy is preceded by the connecting vowel -o-; -o-

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