phrenology
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ə noun
a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
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phrenology (frɪˈnɒlədʒɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| (formerly) the branch of science concerned with localization of function in the human brain, esp determination of the strength of the faculties by the shape and size of the skull overlying the parts of the brain thought to be responsible for them | |
| phrenological | |
| —adj | |
| phre'nologist | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
phrenology
1815, from Gk., lit. "mental science," from phren (gen. phrenos) "mind" + -logy "study of." Applied to the theory of mental faculties originated by Gall and Spurzheim that led to the 1840s mania for reading personality clues in the shape of one's skull and the "bumps" of the head.
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Medical Dictionary
phrenology phre·nol·o·gy (frĭ-nŏl'ə-jē)
n.
The study of the shape and protuberances of the skull, based on the now discredited belief that they reveal character and mental capacity.
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Science Dictionary
phrenology  (frĭ-nŏl'ə-jē) Pronunciation Key
The study of the shape of the skull as a means of determining character and intelligence. Phrenology has been disproven as a science. |
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Example sentences
Because the study of bumps on the ocean surface is a reliable kind of phrenology: it reveals deeper truths about the ocean.
There's more than a whiff in those words of their rank etymological origin in the pseudoscience of phrenology.
His hobbies were chess and higher mathematics and phrenology.
The island itself is vaguely brain-shaped, turning the map into a kind of cartographic phrenology of the self.
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