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

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

"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

To be sure, they do not, when thus appearing at the beginning of words, take the form ology.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

But there’s something—not an ology at all—that your father has missed, or forgotten, Louisa.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

If there is any ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name.”

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)