nymphology

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

nymph +‎ -ology

Noun[edit]

nymphology (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The study of mythological nymphs.
    • 1975, David O. Ross, Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome, page 76:
      Then comes the point of the warning itself, the first instance of Propertius' outlandish nymphology in this poem []
    • 1989, Frederic S. Colwell, Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source, page 110:
      His criticism, however peremptory, is a just pronouncement on most of these literary incursions into the pretty paganism of nymphology.
    • 2018, The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture, page 381:
      [] Boccaccio not only informs us about the nomenclature of nymphology, distinguishing Nereides, Naiades, Napeae, Anadriades, Hymnides and so forth []