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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7963646, member: 19463&quot;]Keep reading. Below what you quoted was an ad for their services that suggests that you must love words since the one you looked up is found only in their Unabridged dictionary and not in one of the hundred or so edited down books.&nbsp; As I recall, they stopped printing the large Unabridged books because of the size and expense when the online version is so much better in so many ways.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Question:&nbsp; If &#039;Logophile&#039; is a person who loves words and the study of their use, is &#039;Logophilia&#039; the disease/addiction to that study which is really quite common among students of the language who could also be described as &#039;logophilous&#039; (the adjectival form)?&nbsp; English has always been a language understood in several layers with many people considered to be fluent but hardly knowing a tenth of the words not even including the specialized vocabularies of things like medicine, law or numismatics.&nbsp; For beginners in such a &#039;loving&#039; addiction, try one of the pages of Dr. Goodword:</p><p><a href="https://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/philias.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/philias.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/philias.html</a></p><p>How many of those are &#039;real words&#039; by your definition. All words in a language were &#039;made up&#039; by someone and many can be understood by parsing their component parts even if they have never before been experienced directly. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some may like the easy approach by subscribing to Dr. Goodword&#039;s free daily word where those so inclined will discover more than they want to know about a different word each day.</p><p><a href="https://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/today" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/today" rel="nofollow">https://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/today</a></p><p>Today&#039;s word is &quot;sink&quot;, a noun shown with five meanings of which four are in my active vocabulary but the fifth is obvious when you read it in a sentence. I might have said &#039;pit&#039; instead but hopefully no one would call the hard thing in a peach a &#039;peach-sink&#039;. It is easy to get carried away.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting useless old words might be akin to buying old coins you can not spend.&nbsp; You might need to take care when using them.&nbsp; Words have the advantage of being cheaper but either hobby will get you funny looks from people whose hobbies are more mainstream.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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