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The definition of logy is slowed down or groggy.

(adjective)

An example of logy is a family after eating a big Thanksgiving dinner.
An example of logy is the disoriented feeling after a long sleep.

Logy is defined as a particular branch or field.

(suffix)

An example of logy used as a suffix is in the word biology, the study of living matter.

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adjective logier, logiest

Informal dull or sluggish, as from overeating

Origin: < ? Du log, heavy, dull

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loginess noun

a (specified kind of) speaking: eulogy
science, doctrine, or theory of: biology, theology

Origin: ME -logie < OFr < L -logia < Gr < logos, word: see logic

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adjective lo·gi·er, lo·gi·est

Characterized by lethargy; sluggish.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps from Dutch log, heavy

Origin: or variant of English loggy, heavy, sluggish

Origin: , from log¹

or -ology

suffix

Discourse; expression: phraseology.
Science; theory; study: dermatology; sexology.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English -logie

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Latin -logia

Origin: , from Greek -logiā (from logos, word, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots)

Origin: and from -logos, one who deals with (from legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots)

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