micrology
Meaning
The study of trivialities and minutiae, or focusing on the small details rather than the whole picture.
The study of trivialities and minutiae, or focusing on the small details rather than the whole picture.
That part of science that deals with microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation; microscopy.
That part of science that deals with microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation; microscopy.
Word Forms
micrologies
Etymology
Sense 1 is borrowed directly from Ancient Greek μικρολογία (mikrología, “pettiness, stinginess, triviality”), with the suffix reinterpreted as -logy.
Sense 2 is micro- + -logy, effectively the same etymological components.