English Explanatory Dictionary

Borgesian library

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks.

Word forms

Borgesian library Borgesian libraries

Etymology

After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941).

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