1. A preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) 
2. (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)

Derived forms: scatologies

See also: scatological

Type of: chemical analysis, dirty word, filth, obscenity, qualitative analysis, smut, vulgarism

Encyclopedia: Scatology

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