-ologicalcomb. form
Primary stress is attracted to the second syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g.
phantasmological adj.Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: theological adj.
Etymology: < -ological (in theological adj., etc.); compare -o- connective, -logical comb. form, and -ology comb. form.Formations with an English first element and this terminal element are found from the beginning of the 19th cent. Early formations are whiggological adj. and spectrological adj. Unlike them, most other examples are formed after earlier nouns in -ology , e.g. Egyptological adj. at Egyptology n. Derivatives and methodological adj. in the 19th cent. and musicological adj. and Kremlinological adj. at Kremlin n. Derivatives in the 20th cent.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).