graphology
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- noun
- /ɡræfˈɑːlədʒi/
- Specialized
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grafología
- Fitch's team will be scientifically picking jurors predisposed in his favor by using video surveillance, wiretaps, psych profiles, graphology...
Examples
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Drawing on the principles of graphology, Gauguin noted that Cezanne's strokes were separate; they did not blend into one another as conventional norms required.
Academic text (2013) -
And then we get to where the graphology starts and really thicken it up a lot.
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Are you familiar with the study of graphology?
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I'm certain your displays of graphology will duly impress any young ladies you encounter.
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We have Quantico working on graphology; the Washington lab is cloning DNA from the secretor.
Fiction book (1995) -
The graphology disrupts the syntax: sometimes noun phrases are isolated; sometimes a verbal process is left hanging in nonfinite form.
Academic text (1994) -
At our invitation, eighteen German speakers—six of them at the University of Leipzig, including historians and librarians expert in graphology—tried to read it.
Academic text (2013) -
Are you familiar with the study of graphology?
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Just how accurate is graphology?
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Maybe not to the untrained eye, but I graduated first in my class from the John Hancock Institute of Graphology.
Synonyms
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Writing believed to come from spirits or study of character from handwriting
Surface Forms
Morphology
graphology = graph + ology
The word is built from the combining form graph- and the suffix -ology, so the structure is visible, but the technical meaning depends on the specialized sense 'writing/handwriting'.
Etymology
Graphology comes from the Greek parts graph meaning 'to write', as you can see in autograph and photograph, and -logy meaning 'study', as in biology. So graphology is the 'study of writing' and is used to look at handwriting to learn about a person's character.