kinology
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The branch of genealogy concerning those who are related by blood or marriage and who live or lived during the same time period.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The paper on kinology contributed by Mr. Henry was replete with interesting details and proved deep study and careful consideration."
- "Kinology differs from mechanics in that it emphasizes explanations in terms of formal and final causes, and resists separating the formal aspects of motion from the bodies moved."
- "Spinal cord callus was assessed by using physiology, kinology, and electrophysiology"
- "Inquiries into such conditions will give rise to two fields related to graphemics, namely, kinology and phanology, which deal respectively with the kinetic aspect of sign production and the visual aspect of its cognition ( Watt 1984, 103, 147)."
- "Looking back at the protolanguage from the vantagepoint of (adult-like) language we can say that it has a semantics and a phonology (or kinology: the expression may be any combination of vocal and gestural) but no (lexico-)grammar."
- "In addition, Cléirigh suggests that body language (kinology) can also be conceptualised as another expression of language (Zappavigna et al. 2010, Martin 2011)."
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Wiktionary places this term in Physics.