Meaning and example
an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge
The passage used "ology" to mean an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.231 places ology in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 40.8% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 41%
the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
- Known by
- 41%
the time yet to come
- Known by
- 40.4%
the property of being close together
- Known by
- 40.1%
the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
- Known by
- 40.1%
only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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