Meaning & use
Physiognomist
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A person who studies or claims to judge a person's character or personality from their facial features.
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The Victorian physiognomist examined the prisoner's face for signs of criminal tendencies.
Modern scientists largely dismiss the claims once made by physiognomists.
A note on using this word
Physiognomy was taken seriously in earlier centuries but is now regarded as pseudoscience.
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