phrenology
BRANCH OF PSEUDOSCIENCE: ASSERTION OF HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS BASED ON SHAPE OF THE SKULL
Phrenologist; Phrenological; Prenology; Craniology; Bump of Locality; Philoprogenitiveness; Frenology; Bumpology; Phrenologists; Brain shape science
Phrenology is the study of the size and shape of people's heads in the belief that you can find out about their characters and abilities from this.
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• phrenologist (phrenologists)
Queen Victoria had her own personal phrenologist.
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