Associations to the word «Phrenology»

Wiktionary

PHRENOLOGY, noun. (medicine) (biology) The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.

Dictionary definition

PHRENOLOGY, noun. A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca