terryology
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fringe theory of logic developed by American actor Terrence Howard, said to be able to prove the statement "1 × 1 = 2".
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He had a theory. It might seem crazy, it may even be crazy, but a long time ago he'd gotten hold of this notion that one times one doesn't equal one, but two. He began writing down his logic, in a language of his own devising that he calls Terryology."
- "Howard says he began professing his belief in Terryology while at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he was studying chemical engineering, and eventually dropped out after a professor refused to agree with him."
- "Terryology began when Howard was just a chemical engineer student at Pratt Institute. Apparently, Howard dropped out of the program due to his conflicting views about fundamental math ideas."
- "Because English, unlike Terryology, can be confusing, Howard later found himself clarifying a 2017 People interview in which he copped to making "terrible mistakes.""
Etymology
From Terrence Howard + -ology. First introduced by Howard in 2015 in an interview with Rolling Stone (see quotation).