Meaning and example
the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation
The passage used "penology" to mean the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.182 places penology in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 42.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 43%
of or relating to proprioception
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fraught with danger
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- 42.2%
providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
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- 42.2%
a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
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- 42.1%
abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
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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