Why this word is great
EPEOLATRY — [Noun] The worship or excessive veneration of words. From Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos, "word") + -latry ("worship of"). Unlike "logolatry" (which elevates the divine Word to metaphysical heights) or "bibliolatry" (which reveres the physical book as sacred object), epeolatry is a secular devotion to language itself—the sheer, trembling power of syllables to conjure worlds. It is the poet tracing the curve of a phrase like a lover’s jawline, the lexicographer hunched in monastic fervor over obsolete verbs, the child whispering a newfound word just to feel its weight on the tongue. Words are our first and last magic: fragile, fleeting, and yet the only thing that outlives us.