kalology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καλός (kalós, “beautiful”) kalo- +‎ -logy.

Noun

kalology (uncountable)

1. The study of beauty; aesthetics
   • 1950, William Pepperell Montague, Great visions of philosophy:

     They are the questions of methodology, of metaphysics, and of kalology. First: What are the ways in which we should attain and verify our knowledge, and how should we interpret truth when we have attained it — as subjective and dependent upon our minds, or as objective and identical with reality?