characteriology

— Both in the realm of geometry and in that of characteriology, the formation of wholes proceeds according to definite laws, and it follows, therefore, that wholes are easily grasped by us.

— By temperament, he was what the old characteriology would call a "choleric."

— This 'cultivated characteriology' (ibid., p. 117) is one that she suggests has been reduced to the cult of the theorist's personality in many of the hagiographies written about Foucault, missing how he cultivated his ethos or characteriology in order to persuade, seduce, unsettle, question, and so forth. She suggests that the enactment of characteriology as a form of argumentation is usually psychologized and quickly reduces to mood or personality traits, 'haunting the debate through strange displaced appearances, as when a pragmatist is called smug' (ibid., p. 128).