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phrenology

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10 lettersPronunciation /frənˈɑlədʒi/Part of speech nounSorted eghlnoopryStarts with PEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties

Word origin

From phreno- + -logy.

Used in a sentence

  • Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
  • MR. BURNS: Who could forget such a monstrous visage? She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal. MR. SMITHERS: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago.
  • Phrenology was the practice of correlating bumps on a skull with mental powers and attributes of character.

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