logology

English

Etymology

logo- +‎ -ology. In the sense “recreational linguistics” popularized by Dmitri Borgmann in Language on Vacation (1965).

Noun

logology (countable and uncountable, plural logologies)

1. (now uncommon) The scientific study of words.

   Synonym: lexicology

2. The study of logos (visual symbols or emblems).
3. The study of words for recreational purposes with an emphasis on letter patterns.

   Synonym: recreational linguistics

   • 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, Scribner, page 124:

     [Another] such curiosity may be stumbled upon by someone interested in logology and in command of more than one language.

4. (religion) The study of words in search for divine truth.

   Coordinate term: numerology

5. (linguistics) The field of recreational linguistics.

Derived terms

• logological

Translations

scientific study of words

• Finnish: sanaoppi

study of logos

• Finnish: logotutkimus

study of words for recreation

• Finnish: sanaseppoilu

religion: study of words in search for God

• Finnish: logologia

Further reading

• logology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia