phre‧nol‧ogy /frəˈnɒledʒi $ -ˈnɑː-/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Greek; Origin: phren 'mind' + English -ology]
the study of the shape of people’s heads as a way of finding out what their characters and abilities are, which was popular in the 19th century
—phrenologist noun [countable]

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