graphological
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8.9
- adjective
- /ˌɡræfəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
- A good teacher helps students understand the graphological aspects of writing, including letter formation and layout.
Examples
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Most of us are able to read (or write) essays such as this one because at some point we successfully negotiated basic graphological skills.
Academic text (1998) -
The prose of these stories is more formal, not just in its graphological presentation, but also in its approximation to the free indirect speech that is characteristic of nineteenth-century realist fiction.
Academic text (1994) -
He wrote for the Frankfurter Zeitung and other newspapers, for magazines, for the radio; he even did graphological analyses.
Fiction book (1995) -
To improve her writing, she focused on developing her graphological abilities, paying attention to spelling and punctuation.
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The author's latest book explores the graphological features of historical manuscripts, highlighting their unique stylistic elements.
Synonyms
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6.0
About the look and arrangement of printed letters and text
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7.2
The spelling and usual way to write words in a language
Surface Forms
Morphology
graphological = graphology (semi-transparent) = graph + ology + ical
The adjective is a regular suffixal formation from the specialized noun graphology, but this sense is a technical extension into written-language features.
Etymology
Graphological comes from graph 'to write' and points to the visual look of writing on the page, like in graphic or paragraph. So a graphological detail is about the appearance of letters, spacing, punctuation, or layout.