Relating to or devoted to books and reading; characteristic of a bookworm or devoted reader.
From Greek biblio- (book) + -otic (relating to), combining the root for 'book' with a suffix indicating relationship or condition. The term emerged in scholarly discourse to describe the obsessive nature of book collectors and readers.
This rare adjective reveals how scholars once had specific vocabulary to describe the intense emotional relationship people have with books—it's the ancestor of our modern 'bookish' but sounds far more scholarly and precise.
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