characteriologist

plural characteriologists

1. One who studies characteriology.

   The characteriologist considers each character as fundamentally unchangeable, its strong points, shortcomings, and weak points all innate.

   1967, Ignace Lepp, The Depths of the Soul: A Christian Approach to Psychoanalysis, page 101

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   The rise of psychology as an empirical, rather than speculative, field led inevitably to the erosion of scientific support for many of the claims of characteriologists.

   2007, F. Clark Power, Ronald J. Nuzzi, Darcia Narvaez, Moral Education, page 70

   Another characteriologist, William H. Whyte, suggests that “doors inside houses . . . marked the birth of the middle class” (The Organization Man [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1956], p. 389).

   2016, Joseph A. Cannataci, The Individual and Privacy