thanatology

1. 1.

   the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects)

   Broaderscience

Other forms of thanatology

plural

thanatologies·

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 thanatology

What does thanatology mean?

thanatology means "the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects)".

How many syllables are in thanatology?

thanatology has 5 syllables: tha-na-to-lo-gy. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /θænəˈtɔlədʒi/.

Is thanatology a common word?

thanatology 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.

What rhymes with thanatology?

1 word rhymes with thanatology. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.