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say it: ska-TAW-luh-jee
scatology is a noun meaning "a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)". It is pronounced /skæˈtɔlədʒi/ — ska-TAW-luh-jee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)
(medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)
medicine
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 scatology come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.