phrenology

Meanings

Plural: phrenologies

Noun

a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.

Origin / Etymology

From phreno- + -logy.

Synonyms

cranioscopy

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