Excessive or obsessive reverence for grammar and grammatical rules; the worship or idolization of grammar.
From 'grammat-' (Greek 'gramma,' letter or written thing) plus 'latry' (from Greek 'latreia,' worship or service), creating a word parallel to 'idolatry' but applied to grammar rules.
Derrida and postmodern theorists used grammatolatry-adjacent concepts to criticize how Western culture worships writing and grammar as sacred—showing that this word actually captures something philosophers still argue about!
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