syntopicon

noun

1. A publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.

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   Obviously, this makes for a syntopicon that is extremely personal, that defies all the rules of classification by verbal labels...

Where it comes from

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

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

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