ology
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A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
science
arena
area
field
study
art
knowledge
domain
concern
province
discipline
specialty
astrology
astrological
bailiwick
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The meaning of the word comes from the suffix "-ology", which means "study of", derived from Greek, and the stem "soci-", which is from the Latin word socius, meaning "companion", or society in general.
The term is parallel to "-ology" in English, being used to construct the names of academic fields: the Chinese names of fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, political science, economics, and sociology all end in xué.