Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

borgesian library

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bor-ge-sian li-brary
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.

Etymology

After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941).

Inflected Forms

Borgesian libraries (plural)

Questions

What does borgesian library mean?: A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.
Where does borgesian library come from?: After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941).

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