microliterature
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A body of short articles and publications, each containing only a little new information.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "By a systematic scanning of microliterature, a list of these can be made."
- "There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers."
- "Finally, there is a microliterature on transfers (see Cox 1987 and Kotlikoff 1988 for summaries) that appears, on balance, to reject the altruism model."
Etymology
From micro- + literature.
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macroliterature