logology

English

logo- +‎ -ology. In the sense “recreational linguistics” popularized by Dmitri Borgmann in Language on Vacation (1965).

logology (countable and uncountable, plural logologies)

(obsolete) Scientific study of words.
Synonym: lexicology
The study of logos (visual symbols or emblems).
The study of words for recreational purposes with an emphasis on letter patterns.
Synonym: recreational linguistics
- 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, Scribner, page 124,
  [Another] such curiosity may be stumbled upon by someone interested in logology and in command of more than one language.
(religion) The study of words in search for divine truth, compare numerology.
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) The study of all things related to science and its practitioners.

scientific study of words

study of logos

study of words for recreation

religion: study of words in search for God