abibliophobia
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prettygoodwordabibliophobia (ae-bib-lee-oh-FOH-bee-uh) - n., the fear of running out of reading material.
A relatively recent coinage (Wiktionary has citations going back to 2006) that hasn't made it into many dictionaries yet, and those that do mark it as humorous -- a category I dispute. Why else would I have over a hundred books on my phone JUST IN CASE? I can't track down who coined it, but it's a legits coinage from Greek roots: a-, not + biblíon, (small) book + phobia, fear.
---L.
A relatively recent coinage (Wiktionary has citations going back to 2006) that hasn't made it into many dictionaries yet, and those that do mark it as humorous -- a category I dispute. Why else would I have over a hundred books on my phone JUST IN CASE? I can't track down who coined it, but it's a legits coinage from Greek roots: a-, not + biblíon, (small) book + phobia, fear.
---L.
