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characterology Psychol.|ˌkærəktəˈrɒlədʒɪ|
[f. character n. + -ology; tr. G. Charakterologie (J. Bahnsen Beiträge zur Ch., 1867).]
The science of character, esp. of its development, types, and individual differences. (Cf. ethology 3.) Also transf.
1903Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. July–Oct. 356 An iconoclastic attitude towards all attempts at practical characterology. 1918J. Ward Psychol. Princ. xviii. 431 Characterology..is coming to be generally used; and so, though at present unfamiliar to English ears, we may..adopt it. 1920L. H. McCormick (title) Characterology; an exact science. 1953W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. ix. 276 The sum of such characteristics should offer the ‘characterology’ of a language. 1963Hoenig & Hamilton tr. Jaspers's Gen. Psychopath. viii. 429 Characterology ends at the lower levels of psychic life, where the self-aware personality also ends.
Hence ˌcharacteroˈlogical a., of or pertaining to characterology; ˌcharacteroˈlogically adv.; ˌcharacteˈrologist, a student of, or specialist in, characterology.
1916R. Steiner Philos. of Freedom x. 170 This individual make-up we will call, following Eduard von Hartmann, the ‘characterological disposition’. 1927A. A. Roback Psychol. of Char. ii (heading) The Literary Characterologists. 1948Berg Clin. Psychol. xvii. 219 Normal persons, characterological cases and psychotics. 1958Listener 12 June 976/1 Characterologists like Freud, La Bruyère, and Theophrastus. 1963Arch. Gen. Psychiatry VIII. 320/1 Sometimes envy erupted in a person not characterologically envious. |