Logy definition

lōgē
logier logiest
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The definition of logy is slowed down or groggy.

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.

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Logy is defined as a particular branch or field.

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

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Science; theory; study.

Dermatology; sexology.

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Slow to respond or react; lethargic.
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Terms formed with the -logy suffix.
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The science, doctrine, or theory of.

Biology, theology.

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Characterized by lethargy; sluggish.
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Discourse; expression.

Phraseology.

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Dull or sluggish, as from overeating.
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A (specified kind of) speaking.

Eulogy.

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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of logy - ology

Origin of logy

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

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • Middle English -logie from Old French from Latin -logia from Greek -logiā (from logos word, speech leg- in Indo-European roots) and from -logos one who deals with (from legein to speak leg- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Perhaps from Dutch log heavy or variant of English loggy heavy, sluggish from log

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Attested from the 19th century, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Dutch log "heavy, dull".

    From Wiktionary

  • Nominalization of the -logy suffix.

    From Wiktionary

Logy Sentence Examples

  • Religion, therefore, is earlier than theo logy.

  • Psycho- of the second and third divisions have been treated by logy.

  • But a logical division like this is not logy necessarily conducive to the ascertainment and remembrance of the historical progress and present significance of the science.

  • Partly on account of its great extent, and partly because there is no wide opening to the Arctic regions, the normal wind circulation is on the whole less modified in the North Pacific than in the Atlantic, except in the west, where the south-west logy.

  • No doubt the Phoenicians had their legends and myths to account for the origin of man and the universe; to some extent these would Myth R e!,, o logy have resembled the ideas embodied in the book of and Genesis.

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