Plural of chromatology; the plural form referring to multiple studies or systematic accounts of color phenomena.
From 'chromatology' + plural '-ies'. A rare academic term combining Greek 'chroma' (color) + 'logos' (study).
While chromatology is extremely obscure today, it represents an old tradition in natural philosophy where scholars tried to catalog and understand color the way they organized all other natural phenomena.
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