Associations to the word «Scatology»

Wiktionary

SCATOLOGY, noun. The scientific study, or the chemical analysis of faeces.
SCATOLOGY, noun. A filthy epithet.

Dictionary definition

SCATOLOGY, noun. A preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions).
SCATOLOGY, noun. (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne