culturology

[kuhl-chuh-rol-uh-jee]

noun

a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.

Origin:
1935–40, Americanism; culture + -o- + -logy

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Culturology has a plethora of syllables.

So is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does it mean:

opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.

(used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)

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