phrenology

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From phreno- +‎ -logy.

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phrenology (countable and uncountable, plural phrenologies)

  1. (medicine, biology) The pseudo-science, now discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
    • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 86:
      Phrenology was the practice of correlating bumps on a skull with mental powers and attributes of character.
    Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.

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