characteriological

comparative more characteriological · superlative most characteriological

1. Of or relating to characteriology.

   Students with characteriological disorders should not be admitted.

   1959, Joseph L. French, Educating the Gifted: A Book of Readings, page 513

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   [H]is is a make-up tending to early arterial changes, and his characteriological traits will undoubtedly be accentuated thereby.

   1913, Albert Gallatin Love, Merritte Weber Ireland, Physical Examination of the First Million Draft Recruits: Methods and Results, page 153

   [A] constantly recurring number of offenses in the same individuals (the recidivists), for the rather obvious reason that no characteriological or true sociological study has ever been attempted.

   1923, Ernest Bryant Hoag et al., Crime, Abnormal Minds and the Law, page 169

   It appears likely, therefore, that "lack of conformity" may in some measure be related to temperamental or characteriological features of the personality.

   1997, Hans J. Eysenck, Dimensions of Personality, page 215

   Extrapolative elements, cultural interface, characteriological attempt to resolve the conflicts between the two: this is science fiction.

   2005, James E. Gunn, Matthew Candelaria, Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction, page 143