Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bibliomigrancy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bib-liomi-grancy
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The movement of books between geographical locations or physical or textual formats.

Example Sentences

"These transformative forces can be located on the traces of “Bibliomigrancy”: an umbrella term that describes the migration of literary works in the form of books from one part of the world to the other."
"The fourth section consists of an empirical study of three cases of French Caribbean translation bibliomigrancy, where the works of Dany Laferrière, Maryse Condé, and Patrick Chamoiseau are analyzed."
"The argument that the BNW volumes were primarily bought as souvenirs misses the point, however, that such appropriation in itself represents another example of bibliomigrancy, another case in which the contours of world literature shifted through the physical movements of books."

Etymology

Coined by literary critic B. Venkat Mani in 2012, from biblio- + migrancy.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: biblio-

Inflected Forms

bibliomigrancies (plural)

Questions

What does bibliomigrancy mean?: The movement of books between geographical locations or physical or textual formats.
Where does bibliomigrancy come from?: Coined by literary critic B. Venkat Mani in 2012, from biblio- + migrancy.

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