English Explanatory Dictionary

entropology

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The study of human actions that lead to the disintegration and increasing disorder of highly evolved social systems.
  2. The tendency of social systems to disintegrate.

Word forms

entropology

Etymology

Coined in 1955 by Claude Lévi-Strauss as Blend of entropy + anthropology

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