heterology
(-ˈɒlədʒɪ)
[f. as prec. + -y; in sense 2, f. Gr. ἑτερο- + -λογια discourse.]
1. The condition of being heterologous: opp. to homology.
| 1854 in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1871 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (1873) 105 Any deviation from the type of the parent tissue constitutes heterology. 1878 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (1879) I. 96 Tissues normal in themselves appear under the form of a tumour, sometimes in regions where this tissue normally exists, sometimes in places where it does not exist in the normal state of things. In the first case I speak of it as homology, in the second as heterology. |
2. nonce-use. Vocabulary of different names.
| 1852 C. W. H[oskins] Talpa 28 Let the old drainer christen it, for my heterology is exhausted. |