micrology
nounEtymology Sense 1 is borrowed directly from Ancient Greek μικρολογία (mikrología, “pettiness, stinginess, triviality”), with the suffix reinterpreted as -logy. Sense 2 is micro- + -logy, effectively the same etymological components.
1
Usually The study of trivialities and minutiae, or focusing on the small details rather than the whole picture.
2
Usually That part of science that deals with microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation; microscopy.
- Derived terms
- micrologic, micrologist