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English

Etymology

From crypto- +‎ -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”); originally after Latin cryptologia, which is apparently first recorded in an English context.[1]

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Noun

cryptology (usually uncountable, plural cryptologies)

  1. The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
    Meronyms: cryptography, cryptanalysis; encoding, decoding; encrypting, decrypting, decyphering
  2. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
    Near-synonyms: cryptanalysis, decoding, decrypting, decyphering
  3. Secret or enigmatical language.
    • 1991, English Studies:
      But the question of speech-play causes confusion to the slang researcher because this subject borders on family slang, private lingo, secret language, cryptologies, disguised language of children and grown-ups

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  1. ^ “cryptology, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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