philology \ fi-LOL-uh-jee \ noun
1. Obsolete the love of learning and literature.
2. the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
3. (especially in older use) linguistics, especially historical and comparative linguistics.
It might be an obsolete term, but I don't think a love of learning and literature will ever become obsolete and will disappear from my own life only after the day I die. The Internet is a weird thing, but it's also a wonderful tool for learning.
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