nymphology

English

Etymology

From nymph +‎ -ology.

Noun

nymphology (uncountable)

1. (rare) The study of mythological nymphs.
   • 1975, David O. Ross, Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome, page 76:

     Then comes the point of the warning itself, the first instance of Propertius' outlandish nymphology in this poem […]

   • 1989, Frederic S. Colwell, Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source, page 110:

     His criticism, however peremptory, is a just pronouncement on most of these literary incursions into the pretty paganism of nymphology.

   • 2018, The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture, page 381:

     […] Boccaccio not only informs us about the nomenclature of nymphology, distinguishing Nereides, Naiades, Napeae, Anadriades, Hymnides and so forth […]