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xenoencyclopedia

noun
/zɛnəɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/

Etymology

From xeno- + encyclopedia.

  1. derived from ἐγκύκλιος
  2. derived from ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ — “education in the circle of arts and sciences”
  3. borrowed from encyclopēdīa, encyclopaedīa — “general education”
  4. prefixed as xenoencyclopedia — “xeno + encyclopedia”

Definitions

  1. An encyclopedia of science fiction.

    • The competent reader gradually learns more and more about the genre's own grand-scale xenoencyclopedia in order to understand each new work's specific xenoencyclopedia...
    • The (xeno)encyclopedia of the (science fiction) reader In L'empire du pseudo, Richard Saint-Gelais applies Umberto Eco's textual cooperation theory to the science fiction genre. He proposes to call “xenoencyclopedia” all the cognitive ...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for xenoencyclopedia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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