characteriological

English

Etymology

From characteriology +‎ -ical.

Adjective

characteriological (comparative more characteriological, superlative most characteriological)

1. Of or relating to characteriology.
   • 1913, Albert Gallatin Love, Merritte Weber Ireland, Physical Examination of the First Million Draft Recruits: Methods and Results, page 153:

     [H]is is a make-up tending to early arterial changes, and his characteriological traits will undoubtedly be accentuated thereby.

   • 1923, Ernest Bryant Hoag et al., Crime, Abnormal Minds and the Law, page 169:

     [A] constantly recurring number of offenses in the same individuals (the recidivists), for the rather obvious reason that no characteriological or true sociological study has ever been attempted.

   • 1959, Joseph L. French, Educating the Gifted: A Book of Readings, page 513:

     Students with characteriological disorders should not be admitted.

   • 1997, Hans J. Eysenck, Dimensions of Personality, page 215:

     It appears likely, therefore, that "lack of conformity" may in some measure be related to temperamental or characteriological features of the personality.

   • 2005, James E. Gunn, Matthew Candelaria, Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction, page 143:

     Extrapolative elements, cultural interface, characteriological attempt to resolve the conflicts between the two: this is science fiction.

Derived terms

• characteriologically

Translations

of or relating to characteriology

• German: charakteriologisch