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adoxography

noun /eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfi/

  1. Fine writing on a minor or trivial subject.

    uncountable

    "ADOXOGRAPHY," […] The former word, with the still uglier "adoxographical," would seem to be of transatlantic origin. Some years ago I drew attention (9 S. xi. 425) to the use of the adjective in an American periodical (The American Journal of Philology, xxiii. 393).

Where it comes from

From New Latin adoxus (“absurd, paradoxical”) (from Ancient Greek ἄδοξος (ádoxos, “obscure, ignoble”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δόξα (dóxa, “expectation”)) + -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā, “writing”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry adoxography (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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