Today's Word "Abibliophobia"
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abibliophobia \eh-bi-bli-ee-FO-bee-yeh\ (noun) - The morbid fear of running out of reading material.
"Jamie is such an abibliophobe that he never leaves the house without several magazines and a few books under his arm."
Today's is likely a fun word created for amusement more than linguistic use. However, it is constructed well and has survived and is flourishing. From the Greek a "not" + bibli-(on) "book" + o, a connector + phob(os) "fear" + ia, a nominal suffix. "Biblion" referred to a small book or scroll or section of a larger work, a biblos.
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