single-word-requests
I'm looking for a pair of words that essentially means "super-collection" and "collection" where the super-collection contains a set of collections. (Alternatively, could be thought of as a "collection" which contains a set of "sub-collections".) I want the words to NOT use either "super" or "sub". I'm open to general English or jargon from specific domains.
Example usage:
Ok, we've got five _<collections>_ – let's group them together into a _<super-collection>_.
I think perhaps the term cosy is appropriate. A quick Google search reveals a number of items similar to your picture which are being marketed as a "phone cosy"
For example, a red knit Phone Cosy.
Another application of the term cosy is a tea cosy
Seems to me you might be looking at a ball cosy, although it is more of a neologism than a defined word.
If it were me, I would prefer [whatever] Library.
The [something] Collection works great though. See for example The Criterion Collection.
Best Answer
This question asks for abstract collective nouns that have an intuitive hierarchy, with one word each for what in mathematics would be called a "set" and "set of sets."
Approach 1: Use a collective noun with a suffix for the second "set of sets" term in order to emphasize the higher-order act of bringing-together.
Approach 2: Use a more specific collective noun for the set, and a more general for the set of sets. The question is carefully phrased to avoid the domain of the set items / objects, however if there is a domain then this would be a good strategy.