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culturomics

culturomics noun: a form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts.

Noun

culturomics (uncountable)

  1. A form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts.
    • The momentous term culturomics suggests the authors’ ambitious view of what can seem like an intellectual parlor game. The magazine Mother Jones, they cheerfully admit, called the Ngram Viewer “possibly the greatest time-waster in the history of the Internet.” But the authors argue that just as...2013 December 24, William Grimes, “Big Data Becomes a Mirror”, in New York Times
  2. The study of culturomes

Origin of culturomics

From culture + -omics (“study of the totality”); first described in a 2010 Science article by Harvard researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden and a host of others.

Questions about culturomics

What does culturomics mean?
Culturomics means a form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts.
What part of speech is culturomics?
Culturomics is a noun.

Words near culturomics in the dictionary

  1. culturologists
  2. culturology
  3. culturome
  4. culturomes
  5. culturomic
  6. culturomics
  7. culturopolitical
  8. cultus
  9. cultus cod
  10. cultuses
  11. culty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: culturomics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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