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antilibrary

antilibrary noun: a collection of books that a person owns but has not yet read.

Noun

antilibrary (plural antilibraries)

  1. A collection of books that a person owns but has not yet read.

Forms of antilibrary

pluralantilibraries

Origin of antilibrary

From anti- + library. Coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007).

Questions about antilibrary

What does antilibrary mean?
Antilibrary means a collection of books that a person owns but has not yet read.
What part of speech is antilibrary?
Antilibrary is a noun.
What is the plural of antilibrary?
The plural of antilibrary is antilibraries.

Words near antilibrary in the dictionary

  1. antilibidinal
  2. antilibidinous
  3. antilibido
  4. antilibidos
  5. antilibraries
  6. antilibrary
  7. antilibration
  8. antilibrations
  9. antilichen
  10. antilife
  11. antilifer

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