palaetiology

1. 1.

   the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes)

   Synonymspaletiology

   Broaderarcheology

Other forms of palaetiology

plural

palaetiologies·

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.

Questions about palaetiology

What does palaetiology mean?

palaetiology means "the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes)".

How many syllables are in palaetiology?

palaetiology has 7 syllables: pa-la-e-ti-o-lo-gy. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for palaetiology?

Close synonyms include paletiology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is palaetiology a common word?

palaetiology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.