Associations to the word «Phrenology»

Wiktionary

PHRENOLOGY, noun. (medicine) (biology) The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.

Dictionary definition

PHRENOLOGY, noun. A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.