CRANIOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craniology mean? 

• CRANIOLOGY (noun)
  The noun CRANIOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the scientific study of the skulls of various human races

  Familiarity information: CRANIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRANIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The scientific study of the skulls of various human races

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("craniology" is a kind of...):

bioscience; life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craniology"):

phrenology (a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties)

Derivation:

craniologist (someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull)