Phrenologist

/frəˈnɑːlədʒɪst/

noun

A person who studies the shape and size of a person's skull to try to understand their character and intelligence.

The phrenologist examined the individual's skull in order to comprehend his personality and intellectual abilities.

Formal

Academic

noun

The phrenologist examined the individual's skull in order to comprehend his personality and intellectual abilities.

Formal

Academic

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Phrenology was popular in the 19th century but is now discredited as a pseudoscience.

Phrenologists in the past believed they could determine character traits from skull shapes.

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Literature and films sometimes portray phrenologists to evoke a historical or pseudoscientific theme.

The character in the period drama consulted a phrenologist about his future.

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The term is outdated; modern neuroscience has replaced phrenology.

A neuroscientist today would not consider a phrenologist's theories scientifically valid.

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