micrology
noun
- microscopy
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: Sense 1 is borrowed directly from Ancient Greek μικρολογία (mikrología, “pettiness, stinginess, triviality”), with the suffix reinterpreted as -logy. Sense 2 is micro- + -logy, effectively the same etymological components.
- The study of trivialities and minutiae, or focusing on the small details rather than the whole picture.
- That part of science that deals with microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation; microscopy.