Since reading involves words, it’s only appropriate that people who love reading have invented some words of their own. These terms describe certain experiences and feelings that are unique to reading.
Most of these are words used by other people. However, I’ve also slipped in a few that I invented myself. Because I couldn’t find an existing term to capture a reading emotion or sensation.
That’s the beauty of language—it’s always growing and evolving to meet our needs.
- Ahenny (adj.) ****the way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves
- Ballycumber (n.) one of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed
- Bibliobibuli (n.) people who read too much; coined in 1957 by H. L. Mencken
- Bibliognost (n.) one that has comprehensive knowledge of books and bibliography
- Biblioklept (n.) someone who steals books
- Bibliophagist (n.) a devourer of books
- Bibliosmia (n.) the smell or aroma of a good book
- Bibliotaph (n.) a person who hoards books and protects them from others
- Book-bosomed (adj.) to describe someone who carries a book at all times
- Bookography (n.) a list of the books you’ve read; like a literary biography
- Bookternet (n.) reading related parts of the internet, including videos, blogs, and podcasts
- Chorizont (n.) someone who disputes the authorship of a particular writer’s work, and attributes the work to someone else
- Epeolatry (n.) the worship of words
- Interbiblious (n.) the time between finishing one book and starting another
- Libricide (v.) the intentional destruction of books