tremology
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In spite of vibrational communication being so widespread (more than 230,000 arthropods species and many vertebrates too), it is probably the least commonly known and least well known of all the sensory modes. […] Perhaps one reason is that there is not a word describing what we do; I suggest the term “tremology” (the study of tremors, vibrations, etc.)."
Etymology
From tremo(r) + -logy. Coined by Canadian biologist John Endler in Studying Vibrational Communication (2014).