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Перевод: phrenology

[существительное]
френология

Тезаурус:

1. Phrenology was slow to die.
2. The bump readers, who once moved among the great and the good, are almost gone; though a handful of practitioners are still living, phrenology is officially dead.
3. a term borrowed from the Victorian pseudo-science of phrenology, the basic premiss of which was that character could be gauged from the shape of the skull, which phrenologists divided into some 40 sections or "organs", each one being the seat of a mental or moral faculty.
4. Phrenology had the same problem as psychology: that of generalisation.
5. When Franz Gall, phrenology's founding father and Spurzheim's teacher in Vienna, visited England in 1823 he brought with him a selection of some 3000 skulls, plus drawings of the great men of the past.
6. He was also interested in phrenology and conducted a male voice choir.
7. By the end of the 19th century the house of phrenology, built as it was on scientific quicksands, had crumbled.
8. In the l9th century many of the - social and intellectual elite were adherents of phrenology: the study of the bumps on the human skull as a guide to character and development.
9. Phrenology, and the phrenologists, were heading towards extinction.
10. Phrenology also acted as a stepping-stone to various social crusades and encouraged women to take a pride in themselves.
11. The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious.
12. Phrenology was, for many women, the road to social involvement and an escape from domestic boredom.
13. In the space of a century, phrenology went from marble halls and respectability to fairground tents and a quick sixpenny character analysis for granddad.