palaetiology

noun

Etymology

From palaeo- + aetiology. Coined by William Whewell.

  1. learned borrowing from aetiologia
  2. prefixed as palaetiology — “palaeo + aetiology

Definitions

  1. The science that explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the…

    The science that explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the Earth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for palaetiology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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