SCATOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scatology mean? 

• SCATOLOGY (noun)
  The noun SCATOLOGY has 2 senses:

1. a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)

2. (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)

  Familiarity information: SCATOLOGY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCATOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

Derivation:

scatological (dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

chemical analysis; qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)