bibliophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] yet even he could not stand against that sin when temporarily infected with the poison of Bibliophobia."
- "What a tragic illness bibliophobia is!"
- "E-literacy derives not from bibliophobia, then, but from the miraculous and evolving advent of digital technology, the Information Age and the Electronic Word."
- "Homophobia? I wonder who is pushing that term forward. Those who would try to change reality. Bibliophobia is the real problem. Fear of what the bible plainly says."
- "Do I detect yet another example of anti-religious bigotry and/or bibliophobia. […] > I am doing an essay for college and I am wondering why people drag > religion everywhere they go. People believe everything in this world > according to some rediculous book in the bible."
- "Thanks, your second cite was particularly interesting. Bibliophobia can be taken too far as in the case of some posters here. The OT [Old Testament] is a useful tool to researchers since it is was written in a language which has been much studied and is thoroughly understood, has remained basically intact for at least two thousand years, and covers a very long historic period."
Etymology
Etymology tree English biblio- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English bibliophobia From biblio- + -phobia.