Abibliophobia
= the fear of running out of reading material
Archeolibrarianologist
= someone who digs good books
Bedgasm
= a feeling of euphoria experienced when climbing into bed at the end of a very long day (in my case: with a book!)
Benkinersophobia
= the fear of not receiving a letter from Hogwarts on your 11th birthday
Bibliobibuli
= people who read too much
Biblioclast
= someone who tears pages from or otherwise destroys books
Bibliodemon
= a book fiend or demon
Bibliognoste
= one who is knowledgeable about editions, colophons, printers, and all the minutiae of books
Bibliograph
= someone who describes books
Biblioholism
= the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire and consume books in excess
Biblioklept
= someone who steals books
Bibliolater
= one who worships books
Bibliolestes
= a book robber or plunderer
Bibliomancer
= one who practices divination by books
Bibliomane
= someone who accumulates books indiscriminately
Bibliomaniac
= a book lover gone mad
Bibliophagist
= a devourer of books
Bibliophile
= one who loves books
Bibliophobe
= someone afraid of books
Bibliopole
= a seller of books
Biblioriptos
= one who throws books around
Bibliosmia
= the enjoyment of the smell of old books
Bibliosopher
= one who gains wisdom from books
Bibliotaph
= a hoarder of books
Someone who is book-bosomed carries a book with them at all times
Book hangover
= inability to start a new book because you’re still living in the last book’s world
Book scorpion
= someone who is hostile to books or learning (also a real species of scorpion)
Bouquinist
= a dealer in second-hand books of little value
Denouement
= the resolution of a narrative
Eloquence
= the art of using language in an apt, fluent way
Epeolatry
= the worship of word
Goya
= the suspension of disbelief that occurs in good storytelling; a story that feels like reality
Incunabula
= any book printed before 1501
Jouska
= a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head
Librocubicularist
= someone who reads in bed
Logolepsy
= an obsession with words
Someone who is omnilegent has read everything, or is familiar with a great amount of literature
What do you call a woman who can’t stop reading books?
= Paige Turner
Potterphile
= a person who loves the Harry Potter books, films
Tsundoku
= the act of buying a book and leaving it unread, often piled together with other unread books
Vellichor
= the strange wistfulness of used bookshops
Verbicide
= one who distorts the sense of a word
Verbivore
= someone who devours or feasts on words
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