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

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche