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Informally, an ology is an academic discipline ending in -ology. Such words are formed from Greek or Latin roots with the terminal -ology meaning "words about". 

"An ology. He gets an ology and he says he's failed. 
 You get an ology, you're a scientist!"
 Maureen Lipman, in a 1980s British Telecom TV ad

Here is a list of some ologies:


and here are a lot more, filtered from a word list:

See also:

External links:

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