Phrenologist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Phrenologist is a noun meaning An adherent or practitioner of phrenology.
Meaning
An adherent or practitioner of phrenology.
Example Sentences
During a skull reading, a phrenologist would measure and carefully feel a person’s head.
The phrenologist, who regulates heart and mind by undulations of the skull, has another system.
One significance weakness of phrenology in the eyes of most anatomists, as Anne Harrington has shown, was that the brain comprised two structurally identical cerebral hemispheres, separated by a longitudinal fissure, whereas phrenologists held that the material sub-stratum of various mental faculties was located in only one hemisphere, and not its twin.
Word Forms
- phrenologists
Synonyms for phrenologist
Depending on context, synonyms include cranioscopist, craniologist.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include craniologist, phobist, philosophist, neologist, phobiac, phallocrat.
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