- indicating a form or process of writing, representing, etc: calligraphy, photography
- indicating an art or descriptive science: choreography, oceanography
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
-graphy,
- a combining form denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording, describing, etc., or an art or science concerned with such a process:biography; geography;orthography;photography.
- Greek -graphia. See -graph, -y3
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
-graphy n combining form
'-graphy' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
choreography
- demography
- geocaching
- haplography
- lexigraphy
- lipography
- lithography
- scintigraphy
- tomography
- aerography
- agraphia
- agrostography
- algraphy
- aluminography
- amniography
- angiography
- anthropography
- aortography
- arteriography
- arthrography
- autography
- bibliography
- biography
- bronchography
- cacography
- calligraphy
- cartography
- cerography
- chalcography
- chemigraphy
- chirography
- cholangiography
- cholecystography
- chorography
- chromatography
- chrysography
- cineangiography
- cinematography
- combining form
- cosmography
- craniography
- cryptography
- crystallography
- dactylography
- demonography
- dermatographia
- dermographia
- discography
- dittography
- electrocorticography