Friday, June 27, 2014

A Bibliophile's List of Book Words


Abibliophobia - fear of being without books

Bibliographe - a person who writes about books

Bibliobibuli - someone who read too much

Bibliotapbe - a person who hides books

Biblioclasts - people who rip the pages from books

Biblioriptos - someone who throws books

Bibliognoste - a person learned in the minute details of a book's publication like colophons, editions, dates and place printed, and who printed it.

Bibliomane - an indiscriminate accumulator of books.

Bibliolestes - a book-thief

Bibliophtbor - a book ravager or destroyer

Bibliopbage - someone who eats books

Bibliophobia - fear of books

Graphophobia - fear of writing or handwriting

Librocubicularist - someone who reads in bed

Logophobia - fear of words

Metrophobia - fear of poetry

Papyrophobia - fear of paper

Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public

Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words

Verbophobia - Fear of words

sources: http://phobialist.com/ and thebookden.com