methodology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: meth=od=ol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

methodology, n. [Gr. method + -logy.].

 The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.  Coleridge.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

methodology, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the science of method.
2 a body of methods used in a particular branch of activity.

Derivative

methodological adj. methodologically adv. methodologist n.

Etymology

mod.L methodologia or F m{eacute}thodologie (as METHOD)

THESAURUS

methodology

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