Meanings
- rareA publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.
...the production of a syntopicon of Freud's concepts...
1971, American Medical Association, Archives of general psychiatry2 more examples
Obviously, this makes for a syntopicon that is extremely personal, that defies all the rules of classification by verbal labels...
1966, Joseph Samuel Bois, The art of awareness: a textbook on general semanticsLike most of you though, I would like to see an expanded index or perhaps a "syntopicon" added to all of these documents.
1989, John Stewart, Avoiding common pilot errors: an air traffic controller's view
Origin
Coined as the name of an Encyclopaedia Britannica publication compiled by Mortimer Adler, A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952).
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