ology

American  

[ol-uh-jee] / ˈɒl ə dʒi /

noun

Informal or Facetious.

plural

ologies

1. any science or branch of knowledge.

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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-

Example Sentences

"Elizabethan is a foreign language to them," says Epis copal Priest Walter Smith of Atlanta, speaking of couples who want to re write the service in their own phrase ology.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other side were 1,000,000 dissident Berbers, led by two of Ben Bella's wartime comrades whose ide ology is vague, but who oppose his ruthless power drive and his economically disastrous rule.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there is something--not an ology at all--that your father has missed, or forgotten.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

Since science is the product of mature minds, the culmination of knowledge, then in this course for adolescents, the "ology" must not be too greatly stressed lest the essential part, the "bios" be obscured.

From Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools by McDonald, James Daley

Until very recently indeed psychology was not an ology at all but an indefinite something or other "up in the air," the sport of the winds and fogs of transcendental tommy rot.

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham