Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ology

1 sense of ology

Sense 1
ology -- (an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge)
       => discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick -- (a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings")