Abibliophobia
WORD OF THE DAY: Abibliophobia (noun)
Pronunciation: [ê-bi-bli-ê-'fo-bee-yê]
Definition: The morbid fear of running out of reading material.
Usage: It is quite interesting that this word has popped up on the Web, the greatest source of reading material the world has ever known. Irony will never cease. Were there such a phobia, those subject to it would be abibliophobes , who would be abibliophobic. They would comport themselves abibliophobically , whatever that might mean.
Suggested Usage: Words on –phobia originally referred to psychotic conditions but now we have extracted a word, "phobia," from the suffix and add it wherever we please: "Wylie is such an abibliophobe that he never leaves the house without several magazines under his arm." In a world where this word could refer to a psychotic state, we could say, "What better refuge from abibliophobia than the library?"
-- Dr. Language, yourDictionary.com
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The morbid fear of running out of reading material
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1 comments:
And here I never thought I had a phobia. Of course, I knew I was a bibliomaniac, but I suppose the two often go together.
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