culturomics

[kuhl-chuh-roh-miks, ‐-rom-iks]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts.

   Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.

Other Word Forms

• culturomic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of culturomics¹

2010; cultur(e) + -omics , as in genomics