AGNATOLOGY

PRONUNCIATION: (ag-nuh-TOL-uh-jee)

MEANING: noun
1. The study of deliberate, culturally produced ignorance or doubt.
2. The deliberate production or cultivation of ignorance or doubt.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek agnosis (not knowing) + -logy (study). Earliest documented use: 1992.
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AGNATOLOGO - the dunce cap, that icon of ignorance

AGNUTOLOGY - the study of lambs and sheep

AGONATOLOGY - the study of painul labor and delivery