bibliomaniac

noun

as in bookseller
one who is keenly devoted to books an incorrigible bibliomaniac, he's already bought more books than anyone could read in a lifetime

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  1. bookseller
  2. bibliophile
  3. antiquarian
  4. bookman
Noun
  • My husband, a bookseller, often notes that most books are bad, and this may be doubly true for children’s books, whose brevity leads foolhardy would-be authors to underestimate the difficulty of their task.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The untitled project got far enough in Hyperion’s pipeline to be assigned an ISBN and listed in bookseller databases as a 384-page hardcover.
    — Andy Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of bookseller
Noun
  • Nijkerk’s grandson Willem Nijkerk knew that his family had included bibliophiles but didn’t know how large his grandfather’s collection was.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • His wife eventually died of tuberculosis, and a brokenhearted Vroman, a bibliophile, sold off a chunk of his vast book collection to collect capital to open the store.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of bibliophile
Noun
  • The six states that make up New England—Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont—are full of charming towns and centuries-old buildings that will make an antiquarian’s heart sing.
    — Heather Bien, Martha Stewart, 3 Nov. 2026
  • According to Consorte, the Vatican letter also backs the theory that the statue was made by an antiquarian from Naples, working with the same farmer who claimed to have found it.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of antiquarian
Noun
  • Subsequent chapters explore great bookmen of the Renaissance, from the Florentine tradesman Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Flemish illuminator Simon Bening to the English antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton — manuscript obsessives all.
    — Bruce Holsinger, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Once asked to describe himself, McMurtry called himself a writer, a screenwriter — and perhaps most significantly, a bookman.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
Definition of bookman
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“Bibliomaniac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bibliomaniac. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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