Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ology"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ology \Ol"o*gy\, n. [See {-logy}.]
A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of
knowledge.
He had a smattering of mechanics, of physiology,
geology, mineralogy, and all other ologies whatsoever.
--De Quincey.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ology
n : an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending)
for some unidentified branch of knowledge
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