Meaning

4 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces.

    Koprologie, Skatologie

    (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)

  2. (countable, uncountable)A filthy epithet.

    Fäkalsprache

  3. (countable, uncountable)Interest in or obsession with faeces or other excrement.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Literature, humor, or pornography featuring excrement or excreting.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. It really sucks when scatology turns to eschatology, or the other way round.

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Translations

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By meaning 2
study or analysis of faeces:
filthy epithet:

Origin

From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”) + -ology.

From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”) + -ology.

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Forms

plural: scatologies
Singularscatology
Pluralscatologies

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
scientific study of faeces:coprology
interest in or obsession with faeces:coprophilia

Word family

4 related words
Relatedscatoliascatophiliascatological
Derivedbovine scatology

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scaryB1scatscatterB1scatterbrainedscavenge
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