maledictology

发音

US /ˌmælədɪkˈtɑləd͡ʒi/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The scientific study of insults and curses.

    不可数

    Therefore, the paper follows the outline given above: (i) maledictology – on swearing and reviling, (ii) from the history…

    Reinhold Aman (born April 8, 1936) is a former chemical engineer and professor of German, and the publisher of Maledicta, a scholarly journal dedicated entirely to the study of offensive language, also known as maledictology.

    The linguists R. Aman and F. Kinner are called founders of modern science of verbal aggression - maledictology.

词源

From malediction + -ology.

来源：wiktionary