Glossology

Quick meaning: Glossology is a noun meaning The science of language; linguistics.

Meaning

The science of language; linguistics.

More Meanings

1. (botany) The naming of parts of plants.
2. (medicine) The diagnosis of disease by examination of the tongue.
3. (chiefly lexicography) The definition and explanation of terms in constructing a glossary.

Example Sentences

If all nations spoke one and the same language, much of the time now spent in the study of Glossology, would be saved.

Erudition has been divided by a German professor into glossology, bibliology and historiology; or a knowledge of languages, a knowlege^([sic – meaning knowledge]) of languages, a knowlege of books, and a knowlege of facts.

[O]n all these questions, both those treated of in the present volume and those bearing on the ethnology and glossology of the Himalayan tribes, he [Brian Houghton Hodgson] has almost exclusively remained master of a field of research in which he had been the first to break ground.

I beg leave to differ from you in printing the etymology of names that are from the Greek in English, and not in Greek letters. I think they would answer the end in view much better if they were in Greek characters; it would be far more conducive to a general knowledge of botanical glossology, and a greater stimulus to the student.

Word Forms

• glossologies

Synonyms for glossology

Depending on context, synonyms include glottology, linguistics.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glossogenesis, speechlore, glottology, glossography, linguistics, logology.

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