Why this word is great
PHILOMATHY — [Noun] The love of learning or literature. From the Greek philo- ("loving") + -mathy (from mathema, "learning"). Unlike "philosophy" (which seeks wisdom) or "bibliophilia" (which cherishes books alone), philomathy is the unquenchable thirst for knowledge itself—raw, unfiltered, and indifferent to utility. It is the child tracing constellations in a dog-eared astronomy primer, the retiree hunched over a language textbook with ink-stained fingers, the insomniac scholar chasing footnotes down a rabbit hole of arcane journals. To love learning is to court a hunger that can never be sated.