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-istics

-istics suffix: synonym of -logy (“branch of learning; a study of a particular subject”).

Suffix

-istics

  1. Synonym of -logy (“branch of learning; a study of a particular subject”).
    Synonyms:
    -ics, -logy, -s

Synonyms of -istics

Origin of -istics

From -ist + -ics.

Questions about -istics

What does -istics mean?
-istics means synonym of -logy (“branch of learning; a study of a particular subject”).
What part of speech is -istics?
-istics is a suffix.

Words near -istics in the dictionary

  1. -ista
  2. -istan
  3. -istic
  4. -istical
  5. -istically
  6. -istics
  7. -ists
  8. -isy
  9. -itan
  10. -itate
  11. -ite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -istics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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