fairyology
English
Etymology
fairy + -ology
Noun
fairyology (uncountable)
- The study of fairies.
- 2013, Michael D.C. Drout, J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, page 187:
- The sentimentality and enchantment associated with Victorian fairyology did not survive the Great War, and the incident of the Cottingley fairies marked the end of the cult of fairies in literature and other arts […]
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