- List of non-sciences ending in -logy
The words in the following list have names formed with the suffix "
-logy ". They refer to kinds of speech, writing, collections of writing, or the like. Words ending in "-logy" which are "sciences" can be found in thelist of sciences ending in -logy .A
*
Anthology , a collection of literary pieces (such as poems)
*Apology
**a statement of regret
**an explanation for or justification of beliefs
*Arcology - enormous habitat (hyperstructure) of extremely high human population density
*Autology , the attribute (of a word) of being self descriptive. The word "polysyllabic" is autological because it is polysyllabic. (compare "heterology")C
*
Chronology is the arrangement or setting out of past events in order of occurrence; the recording of historical events in date sequence
*Cosmetology , the art and career of usingcosmetics to improve beautyD
*
Dilogy isFact|date=September 2008
**ambiguous or equivocal speech, or
**a work composed in two parts (seetrilogy )
*Docimology , a treatise on the art of testing, e.g. in assaying metals.Fact|date=September 2008
*Doxology , a spoken or sung end of a prayerE
*
Eulogy , a commemoration of a person's life at his/her funeralH
*
Hagiology isliterature dealing with the life of a saint or, indeed, any revered person, a biography of an individual, rather than a study of "saints", sainthood or saintliness in general
*Heterology Fact|date=September 2008
**a dissimilarity of parts often attributable to a difference in origin
**the attribute (of a word) of not being self descriptive. The word "monosyllabic" is heterological because it is not monosyllabic (compare "autology ")
*Homology , concept inanthropology ,biology ,algebraic topology , andsociology , meaning "likeness in structure"I
*
Ideology , sometimes spelled idealogy, is a system of ideas about politics, human life or cultureK
*
Kibology , joke religion worshiping KiboM
*
Menology , a register of months, or acalendar of the lives of thesaint s for each day of the year
*Monadology , a book byLeibniz on the study of his theory ofmonads N
*
Necrology , a list of people who have died, especially in the recent past or during a specific periodP
*
Philology , the historical study of languages. This is not a "ology" in the strict sense, because it is not the study ("-ologia") of love ("philo-"), but the love ("philo-") of literature ("logia")
*Phraseology is the way words are put together, therefore the style being used in a sentence, or the set ofphrase s or the choice of words used by any particular group of people, or a type of register that reflects the form of language used in a certain social situation in which particular subjects are being discussed
*Piphilology seems to be a borderline case with some aspects of a field of study, but not a scientific disciplineR
*
Reflexology , alternative method ofmassage , therapy or pressure on certain points of the sole of the feet as a means of relieving nervous tensionT
*Tautology, a self-affirming truth
*Terminology , a set of words and/or phrases, usually in relation to some particular canon or field of study e.g. 'mathematical terminology'
*Tetralogy of Fallot , an abnormality of theheart consisting of four deformities that often occur together
*Trilogy (although not strictly an "-ology") is abody of writing in three parts, astetralogy is that in four parts. Other words such aspentalogy ,hexalogy ,heptalogy or "septology",octology ,nonology , anddekology cover larger series.
*Tropology , the use of tropes in speech or writing
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.