manology

manology noun: the study of human beings.

Noun

manology (uncountable)

(dated, rare) The study of human beings.
- There is a deal of modernism about them, and too much enthusiasm, and wild fire, and manology, and preaching every thing, and naturalism, and all that.1853, Joseph Augustine Benton, The California Pilgrim: A Series of Lectures, page 85
- He knew bugology better than he did manology, and he was acquainted with all the bugs from Adam down, and he had all kinds of them in frames hung up around his office.1886, Sam Porter Jones, Quit Your Meanness, page 32

An enthusiastic but poorly inspired prophet in the West, has informed the world that the religion of the future is not to be, as he puts it, a matter of godology, but of manology.1908, Rev. Thomas J. Campbell, “The only true American school system”, in Bulletin of the Catholic Educational Association, volume 6:
We have studied zoology, and biology, and everything under the sun but manology.1916 April, “Man-ology”, in Judicious Advertising, volume 14, number 4, page 39:

What does manology mean?: Manology means the study of human beings.
How do you use manology in a sentence?: An enthusiastic but poorly inspired prophet in the West, has informed the world that the religion of the future is not to be, as he puts it, a matter of godology, but of manology.
What part of speech is manology?: Manology is a noun.

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