micrology

Meaning

Noun

• The study of trivialities and minutiae.
• That part of science that deals with microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation; microscopy.

Origin

• Sense 1 is borrowed directly from Ancient Greek μικρολογία ("pettiness, stinginess, triviality"), with the suffix reinterpreted as -logy.
• Sense 2 is micro- + -logy, effectively the same etymological components.