culturomics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts.
  2. The study of culturomes

Word forms

culturomics

Etymology

From culture + -omics (“study of the totality”); first described in a 2010 Science article by Harvard researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden and a host of others.

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