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syntopicon

syntopicon noun: a publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.

Noun

syntopicon

  1. (rare) A publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.
    • Obviously, this makes for a syntopicon that is extremely personal, that defies all the rules of classification by verbal labels...1966, Joseph Samuel Bois, The art of awareness: a textbook on general semantics
    • ...the production of a syntopicon of Freud's concepts...1971, American Medical Association, Archives of general psychiatry

Origin of syntopicon

Coined as the name of an Encyclopaedia Britannica publication compiled by Mortimer Adler, A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952).

Words formed from syntopicon

Questions about syntopicon

What does syntopicon mean?
Syntopicon means a publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.
What part of speech is syntopicon?
Syntopicon is a noun.

Words near syntopicon in the dictionary

  1. syntonous
  2. syntony
  3. syntopic
  4. syntopical
  5. syntopically
  6. syntopicon
  7. syntopies
  8. syntopy
  9. syntoxoid
  10. syntoxoids
  11. syntribation

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