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What (who) is phrenology$60541$ - definition

FACULTY IN THE DISCREDITED THEORY OF PHRENOLOGY
Benevolence (Phrenology); Firmness (phrenology); Destructiveness (phrenology)

phrenology         
  • American Institute of Phrenology (New York, 1893)
  • A definition of phrenology with chart from ''Webster's Academic Dictionary,'' circa 1895
  • [[George Combe]]
  • Phrenological bust
  • An 1883 phrenology chart
  • 1848 edition of ''American Phrenological Journal'' published by Fowlers & Wells, New York
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.
N-UNCOUNT
phrenologist (phrenologists)
Queen Victoria had her own personal phrenologist.
N-COUNT
Phrenological         
  • American Institute of Phrenology (New York, 1893)
  • A definition of phrenology with chart from ''Webster's Academic Dictionary,'' circa 1895
  • [[George Combe]]
  • Phrenological bust
  • An 1883 phrenology chart
  • 1848 edition of ''American Phrenological Journal'' published by Fowlers & Wells, New York
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
·adj Of or pertaining to Phrenology.
phrenology         
  • American Institute of Phrenology (New York, 1893)
  • A definition of phrenology with chart from ''Webster's Academic Dictionary,'' circa 1895
  • [[George Combe]]
  • Phrenological bust
  • An 1883 phrenology chart
  • 1848 edition of ''American Phrenological Journal'' published by Fowlers & Wells, New York
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
[fr?'n?l?d?i]
¦ noun chiefly historical the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities.
Derivatives
phrenological adjective
phrenologist noun
Origin
C19: from Gk phren, phren- 'mind' + -logy.

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Benevolence (phrenology)

Benevolence is a faculty in the discredited theory of phrenology.