prosopography
prosopography noun: a study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and their relationships.
Noun
prosopography (countable and uncountable, plural prosopographies)
- A study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and their relationships.
- Since it would be a daunting task to subject the entire profession to audit, he chose to pursue the prosopography of the manageable subset of financial economists who had presented themselves as "faceless" representatives of the orthodox economics discipline, either through the Squam Lake Group...2014, Phillip Murowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
Forms of prosopography
| plural | prosopographies |
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Origin of prosopography
From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: prosopo- + -graphy; from the Latin prosōpographia (“description of a person’s appearance; description of an individual’s life”), from the Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face, person”) + -γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (-grăphĭ́ā, “writing, drawing”). See also prosopon.
Words formed from prosopography
Words that rhyme with prosopography
- geography
- choreography
- orthography
- topography
- chirography
- hagiography
- heliography
- phonography
- semiography
- acrography
- autography
- bibliography
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- cacography
- chromography
- demography
- discography
- iconography
- isography
- logography
- ludography
- metallography
- micrography
- paleography
- pantography
- pornography
- scenography
- typography
- videography
- aerography
- archaeography
- arteriography
- arthrography
- autobiography
- autohagiography
- biogeography
- biography
- cartography
- cerography
- chronography
- cinematography
- cosmography
- crystallography
- dactylography
- demonography
- dittography
- electrography
- enterography
- ethnography
- etymography
- exogeography
- fluorography
- galvanography
- glossography
- heterography
- historiography
- homography
- horologiography
- ichnography
- laryngography
- mechanography
Questions about prosopography
- What does prosopography mean?
- Prosopography means a study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and their relationships.
- What part of speech is prosopography?
- Prosopography is a noun.
- What is the plural of prosopography?
- The plural of prosopography is prosopographies.
Words near prosopography in the dictionary
Source and license
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