graphology

From French graphologie, coined by Jean-Hippolyte Michon from Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”) + French -logie (“study of”). By surface analysis, grapho- +‎ -logy.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹæˈfɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɹæˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
• Hyphenation: Gra‧pho‧lo‧gy

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graphology (usually uncountable, plural graphologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of handwriting, especially as a means of analyzing a person's character.
   • 1999, Lee Naftali, Joel Naftali, You're Certifiable: The Alternative Career Guide to More Than 700 Certificate Programs, Trade Schools, and Job Opportunities, page 155:

     Graphology, or handwriting analysis, is the study and interpretation of handwriting as an indicator of personality. Professional graphologists offer four primary services: graphology classes to hobbyists, personality profiles to help individuals increase their self-knowledge and potential for change, personnel screening and consultation for employers, and questioned document examination, or forensic graphology, to identify forged handwriting and documents for legal purposes.

   • 2003, Michael Hau, The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930‎, page 50:

     The philosopher Ludwig Klages saw graphology as a means to penetrate the deceptive self-presentation of his contemporaries and unveil their true character.

   • 2006, Bethan Benwell, Elizabeth Stokoe, Discourse and Identity, page 263:

     Graphology and graphological deviation are likely to be very significant in a mode that lacks non-textual social cues, such as paralanguage, prosody and gesture.

2. A system of handwriting.
   • 1930, Frances E. O'Brien, Individualism in Child Art, unnumbered page:

     "Talented" children fall into one of two classes: those with an imitative ability who readily absorb the preconceived graphologies they see about them in pictures, magazines and books, and those […] .

   • 1984, David Shapiro, Jasper Johns: Drawings 1954-1984‎, page 29:

     This 1960 work, like the black works of Rauschenberg and the graphologies of Cy Twombly, is our most patient analysis of multiplicity.

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