different between cerealogist vs cereology

English

Etymology

cerealogy +? -ist

Noun

cerealogist (plural cerealogists)

1. One who practices or studies cerealogy, or crop circles.

English

Etymology

Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”) +? -ology.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?.?.????.l?.d?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?.?.????.l?.d?i/
• Hyphenation: ce?re?o?lo?gy

Noun

cereology (uncountable)

1. The investigation, or practice, of creating crop circles.
   • 1991, “Editorial notes”, in The Cereologist: The Journal for Crop Circles Studies, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: The Cereologist, OCLC 877349523, page 5; quoted in Gordon Stein, “Crop Circles”, in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996, ISBN 978-1-57392-021-6, page 185, column 1:

     The result of all this has been to throw the world of cereology into a state of total confusion. All its previous certainties have been demolished.

Alternative forms

• cerealogy

Related terms

• cereologist, cerealogist

Further reading

• crop circle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia