“We live for books.”―Umberto Eco. What do you call a lover of books? The definition of a book lover is someone who loves (and usually collects) books. If you’re a person who is passionately enthusiastic about books—otherwise known as a bibliolater—you should know these 25 words for book lovers.
1. Abibliophobia
the fear of running out of reading material.
2. Bibliobibuli
people who read too much.
3. Bibliognost
one that has comprehensive knowledge of books.
4. Biblioklept
a person who steals books.
5. Bibliolater
a person who is passionately enthusiastic about books.
6. Bibliomancy
the practice of foretelling the future by interpreting a randomly chosen passage from a book.
7. Bibliomania
a passionate enthusiasm for collecting and possessing books.
8. Bibliophage
a book-eater, or devourer of books.
9. Bibliophile
a person who collects or has a great love of books.
10. Bibliopole
a person who buys and sells books, especially rare ones.
11. Bibliosmia
the smell or aroma of a good book.
12. Bibliosoph
one who is particularly knowledgeable about books.
13. Bibliotaph
one who “buries” books by hiding them, locking them away, or otherwise shutting them up and keeping them from use.
14. Bookarazzi
a person who excitedly takes photos of the books they read and posts them online.
15. Book-bosomed
someone who carries a book with them at all times.
16. Epeolatry
the worship of words.
17. Hamartia
a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.
18. Librocubicularist
a person who reads in bed.
19. Logophile
a lover of words.
20. Omnilegent
reading, or having read, everything.
21. Readgret
the feeling of fury or sadness for putting off reading a certain book until now, when you should have read it years ago.
22. Scripturient
having a strong urge to write.
23. Scrollmate
an author with whom a reader feels a deep connection.
24. Shelfrighteous
a feeling of superiority about one’s bookshelf.
25. Tsundoku
buying books but never reading them so that they pile up in one’s room.
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September 2, 2018, 3:57 pmThese 25 words will definitely be loved by all the book lovers out there. I shared this with one of my mates who does the ukessay work. He is a big book enthusiast, and he was happy to read all of these 25 words here.
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