bibliophobia
English
Etymology
From biblio- + -phobia.
Noun
bibliophobia (uncountable)
- The fear or dislike of books.
- 1818, Religio Christiani, a Churchman's Answer to Religio Clerici, quoted in The Gentleman's Magazine, October 1818, page 345:
- […] yet even he could not stand against that sin when temporarily infected with the poison of Bibliophobia.
- 1963, John B. Nicholson, “A Disease Known as Bibliophobia”, in Reading and the Art of Librarianship, published 1986, →ISBN, page 10:
- What a tragic illness bibliophobia is!
- 2008, Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation, →ISBN, page 67:
- E-literacy derives not from bibliophobia, then, but from the miraculous and evolving advent of digital technology, the Information Age and the Electronic Word.
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Translations
fear or dislike of books
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