-ology, -logy, -ologist, -logist

(Greek: a suffix meaning: to talk, to speak; a branch of knowledge; any science or academic field that ends in -ology which is a variant of -logy; a person who speaks in a certain manner; someone who deals with certain topics or subjects)

The word -ology is a back-formation from the names of certain disciplines. The -logy element basically means "the study of ____". Such words are formed from Greek or Latin roots with the terminal -logy derived from the Greek suffix -λογια (-logia), speaking, from λεγειν (legein), "to speak".

The suffix -ology is considered to be misleading sometimes as when the "o" is actually part of the word stem that receives the -logy ending; such as, bio + logy.

Through the years -ology and -logy have come to mean, "study of" or "science of" and either of these suffixes often utilize the form of -ologist, "one who (whatever the preceding element refers to)".

The examples shown in this unit represent just a small fraction of the many words that exist in various dictionaries.

astrometeorology
1. The study of the behavior of planets in the solar system and this relationship to the weather.
2. The investigation of the (alleged) influence upon the weather, climate, etc. of planetary and stellar phenomena; such as, sun-spots, phases of the moon, comets, meteors, and planetary conjunctions.

This was a branch of an older natural astrology; and the term is often applied to a pretended prognostication of the weather, which is no better than modern "astrology".

astrotheology (s) (noun), astrotheologies (pl)
Religious beliefs that are based on the observation or knowledge of heavenly or celestial bodies.
atheology (s) (noun), atheologies (pl)
1. Antagonism to the study of the nature of God and religious truth; atheism.
2. The absence of knowledge about the existence and nature of the divine and its relationship to and influence upon other beings.
atmologist (s) (noun), atmologists (pl)
Someone who is an expert in the science of aqueous vapor: Bob's uncle was an atmologist who did research in the field of science dealing with the phenomena and laws of aqueous vapors.
atmology (s) (noun) (no pl)
The branch of science that deals with the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor: Mark's mother was a scientist who was involved in doing research in the discipline of aqueous vapor, termed atmology.
atmospherology (s) (noun) (no pl)
The scientific investigation or treatise of the atmosphere: Atmospherology is the systematic study of the phenomena of the atmosphere of a planet, a satellite, or of the sun.

More specifically, atmospherology is the examination or research of the Earth's atmospher, as in meteorology.

audiologist (s) (noun), audiologists (pl)
A health-care professional with a doctoral degree in audiology and who is trained to evaluate hearing loss and related disorders, including balance (vestibular) disorders and tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and to rehabilitate individuals with hearing loss and related disorders: An audiologist is a person who is skilled in the science of hearing, including the rehabilitation of patients whose hearing cannot be improved medically or surgically.

An audiologist uses a variety of tests and procedures to assess hearing and balance function and to fit and dispense hearing aids and other therapeutic devices for hearing.

audiologists
A heard of audiologists.
audiology (s) (noun) (no pl)
The scientific study or measurement of hearing abilities, especially the study of hearing loss or impairment, and of techniques or methods for dealing with such a condition: Since Lynn's mother had a hearing deficiency, she became quite interested in audiology and decided to become an audiologist!

An audiology exam tests a person's ability to hear sounds. Sounds vary according to the intensity (volume or loudness) and the tone (the speed of sound wave vibrations).

autarcesiology
The scientific study of natural immunity.
autecology, autoecology (s) (nouns)
1. The ecology of an individual organism or species.
2. The study of the ecology of an individual plant or species; the opposite of synecology.
autology
1. The science of understanding oneself.
2. The study of oneself; self-analysis.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

—Agnes Repplier
autopharmacology
The regulation of body functions by the activity of natural, endogenous, chemical constituents of the tissues.
auxanology
auxology
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-.