cryptology

From crypto- +‎ -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”); originally after Latin cryptologia, which is apparently first recorded in an English context.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹɪpˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹɪpˈtɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

cryptology (usually uncountable, plural cryptologies)

1. The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.

   Meronyms: cryptography, cryptanalysis; encoding, decoding; encrypting, decrypting, decyphering

2. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.

   Near-synonyms: cryptanalysis, decoding, decrypting, decyphering

3. Secret or enigmatical language.
   • 1991, English Studies:

     But the question of speech-play causes confusion to the slang researcher because this subject borders on family slang, private lingo, secret language, cryptologies, disguised language of children and grown-ups

• cryptography, cryptanalysis, ciphertext, plaintext, cleartext, code, key
• Appendix:Glossary of cryptography