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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ology is a noun meaning "an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge". It carries one recorded sense.
an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ology come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.