graphology
/ɡɹæˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: psychographology (sometimes synonymous)"
- "Graphology, or handwriting analysis, is the study and interpretation of handwriting as an indicator of personality. Professional graphologists offer four primary services: graphology classes to hobbyists, personality profiles to help individuals increase their self-knowledge and potential for change, personnel screening and consultation for employers, and questioned document examination, or forensic graphology, to identify forged handwriting and documents for legal purposes."
- "The philosopher Ludwig Klages saw graphology as a means to penetrate the deceptive self-presentation of his contemporaries and unveil their true character."
- "Graphology and graphological deviation are likely to be very significant in a mode that lacks non-textual social cues, such as paralanguage, prosody and gesture."
- ""Talented" children fall into one of two classes: those with an imitative ability who readily absorb the preconceived graphologies they see about them in pictures, magazines and books, and those[…]."
- "This 1960 work, like the black works of Rauschenberg and the graphologies of Cy Twombly, is our most patient analysis of multiplicity."
Etymology
From French graphologie, coined by Jean-Hippolyte Michon from Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”) + French -logie (“study of”). By surface analysis, grapho- + -logy.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: graphologie
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɹæˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- British English: /ɡɹæˈfɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/