Words at Play : 12 Oversized Words
Definition:
: love of knowledge; specifically : excessive striving for or preoccupation with knowledge
Example:
"And, as Freud's case study of the 'Rat Man' indicates, epistemophilia can in some people become something far more obsessive and desperate than normal intellectual endeavour." — Bran Nicol, in Literature and Psychology, 1999
About the Word:
Epistemophilia is formed by combining the New Latin roots epistemo- and -philia (meaning 'understanding, knowledge' and 'love of,' respectively). What could go wrong with having a love of knowledge? An epistemophiliac has a little too much love. You know the type.
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