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WRITING TERMINOLOGY
- Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of things to read.
- Amorist is someone who writes about love.
- Bibliobibuli are people who read too much.
- Bibliophagisf is a voracious reader.
- Bibliophilia is a lover of books,
- Bibliosmia is the love of the smell of old books.
- Bibliotaph is one who hides away or hoards books.
- Bibliothecary is one who collects or maintains books.
- Book-Bosomed describes someone who carries a book at all times.
- Booklore is knowledge of facts and figures about books, titles and publication details.
- Chorizont is the name for someone who disputes the authorship of a particular writer’s work, and attributes the work to someone else.
- Clerisy is a distinct class of literary people.
- Colygraphia means writers block.
- Dysgraphia. This is a problem when one finds it hard to write legibly.
- Epcolatry means the worship of words.
- Eutony is the pleasantness of the Sound of a word.
- Graphomania is a mania for writing.
- Hellenomania refers to the act of using long Latin and Greek terms instead of readily understandable English words.
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
- Holy writ is a writing having questionable authority.
- Hypergraphia means the overwhelming desire to write.
- Lethologica is when you can’t think of a word for something
- Libricide is the killing of a book.
- Librocubicularist is someone who reads in bed.
- Linguaphile is a lover of language and words.
- Loganamnosis refers to the mania for trying to recall a forgotten word.
- Logastellus is a person who’s love for words is greater than their knowledge of words.
- Logodaedalus is someone who is cunning with words;
- Logodaedaly refers to the arbitrary coining of new words.
- Logolept is a word-maniac or word-nerd.
- Logomisia denotes a disgust for certain words.
- Logophile is a lover of words and etymology.
- Logopœia is defined as the dance of the intellect among words.
- Milver is a person with whom one shares a strong interest in a particular topic like wordplay.
- Mogigraphia is a rare word meaning ‘writer’s cramp’, the stiffness of the hand of many writers who prefer to compose the old-fashioned way with pen or pencil by hand.
- Neologize is to make or use new words or create new meanings for existing words.
- Omnilegent is someone who is reading or has read everything.
- Onomatomania means intense mental anguish at the inability to recall some word or to name a thing.
- Polysemy is when a single word, phrase or concept has more than one meaning or connotation.
- Raconteur is a gifted storyteller.
- Readgret is the feeling of sadness that you read a book too fast. It also means feeling sad or sorry for reading a book you should have read years ago.
- Scrabblement is the writing of a rambling character likeii that of a madman.
- Scriptorium is a place for writing.
- Sesquipedalian is a word for somebody who is fond of using long words.
- Shturmovshchina refers to the practice of writing frantically just before a deadline.
- Symbolophobia is the fear of symbolism.
- Tsundoku is buying books and not reading them and letting them pile up unread on shelves or nightstands.
- Vellichor is the strange wistfulness of old bookstores.
- Verbicide is the killing of a word or the distortion of its original meaning,
- Verbigeration is the habit of frequently repeating favourite words or expressions.
- Verbivore to describe someone who devours and feasts on words.
- Verbose is using too many words to convey a thought.
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