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📚 noun • entry_id 10017

phrenology

/frənˈɑlədʒi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
frenología
The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
MR. BURNS: Who could forget such a monstrous visage? She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal. MR. SMITHERS: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quacker…
Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
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