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idiology

idiology is the misspelling of ideology.

Meaning of ideology

Noun

ideology (countable and uncountable, plural ideologies)

  1. Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
    • A dictatorship bans things, that do not conform to its ideology, to secure its reign.
  2. (uncountable) The study of the origin and nature of ideas.

Origin of idiology

By confusing the prefix ideo- with the unrelated but homophone idio-.

Questions about idiology

What is idiology the misspelling of?
Idiology is the misspelling of ideology.

Words near idiology in the dictionary

  1. idiolectical
  2. idiolectically
  3. idiolects
  4. idiologi
  5. idiologus
  6. idiology
  7. idiom
  8. idiom blend
  9. idiom blends
  10. Idiom Neutral
  11. idiomacy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: idiology (page history and authors); ideology (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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