Logy meaning

lō'gē
A (specified kind of) speaking.

Eulogy.

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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.

suffix
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The science, doctrine, or theory of.

Biology, theology.

affix
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Terms formed with the -logy suffix.
noun
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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.

adjective
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Slow to respond or react; lethargic.
adjective
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Characterized by lethargy; sluggish.
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Discourse; expression.

Phraseology.

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Science; theory; study.

Dermatology; sexology.

suffix
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Dull or sluggish, as from overeating.
adjective
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Origin of logy

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)

Sentence Examples

  • Religion, therefore, is earlier than theo logy.

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

  • if N = a p, then p is called the logarithm of N to the base a, and is written logy N.

  • 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.

  • In their theory of a triple manifestation of an impersonal deity, the Brahmanical theologians, as we have seen, had indeed elaborated a doctrine which might have seemed to form a reasonable, authoritative creed for logy.

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