English

Noun

glossology ‎(countable and uncountable, plural glossologies)

1. (medicine) The study of the tongue and its diseases.
   • 1844, The London Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Physiology, Surgery, Chemistry, Criticism, Literature and News, Volume 1, Article by Benjamin Ridge, page 690,

     Glossology, or the Additional Means of Diagnosis of Disease to be derived from Indications and Appearances of the Tongue.

   • 1844, Massachusetts Medical Society, The New England Medical Journal. Volume 30, page 248,

     […] and he argues that the nature and seat of diseases may be detected and discriminated by cultivating this new science of glossology

2. The definition and explanation of terms in constructing a glossary.
3. The science of language; linguistics.
   • 1841, Roswell Park, Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge, page 42,

     If all nations spoke one and the same language, much of the time now spent in the study of Glossology, would be saved.

Synonyms

• (science of language): glottology, linguistics