Term: scatology: a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)
Candidate hypernym: obscenity: an offensive or indecent word or phrase → 1
Candidate hypernym: electronic device: a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically → 0
Candidate hypernym: gut: a narrow channel or strait → 0
Candidate hypernym: liability: the quality of being something that holds you back → 0
Candidate hypernym: epergne: a large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: biography: an account of the series of events making up a person's life → 0
Candidate hypernym: reconditeness: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound → 0
Candidate hypernym: ceriman: tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor → 0
Candidate hypernym: spiraea: a dicotyledonous genus of the family Rosaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: mexican juniper: small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets → 0
Candidate hypernym: department of commerce and labor: a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913 → 0