stamp collecting

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Noun

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stamp collecting (uncountable)

  1. The hobby of collecting and displaying postage stamps and related items.
    Synonym: philately
  2. (figuratively, usually derogatory) Collection of items or information of no intrinsic value.
    • a. 1937, attributed to Ernest Rutherford:
      All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
    • 2002 May 21, Michael Shermer (quoted), “Stephen Gould, 60”, in Los Angeles Times:
      He really changed the field of paleontology from the stamp-collecting type of science where you just catalog fossils.
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Translations

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stamp hobby — see philately
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