orismology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρισμός (horismós, “definition”) +‎ -logy.

Noun

orismology (uncountable)

1. (rare, lexicography) The explanation of technical terms.
2. (rare, lexicography) Technical terms collectively; terminology.
   • 1815, William Kirby, William Spence, “Preface”, in An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates‎^[1], 3rd edition, volume 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1818, page xii:

     In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the barbarism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a greater degree of precision and concinnity—dividing it into general and partial Orismology; […]

Related terms

• orismologist

See also

• onomasiology