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-ology

 - 2 dictionary results
-logy or -ology  
suff.  
  1. Discourse; expression: phraseology.

  2. Science; theory; study: dermatology; sexology.


[Middle English -logie, from Old French, from Latin -logia, from Greek -logiā (from logos, word, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots) and from -logos, one who deals with (from legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots).]
-ology  
suff.  Variant of -logy.
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