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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia) + -phobia, equivalent to aletho- + -phobia.
Noun
alethophobia (uncountable)
- (psychology) A fear or dislike of the truth; an unwillingness to come to terms with truth or facts.
- Antonym: alethophilia
1875 April, “The Question of Organic Evolution”, in Quarterly Journal of Science, volume 12, page 202:Is her "official science" fatally smitten with alethophobia?
2007, Manoucher Parvin, Alethophobia: Fear of Truth : a Novel:If Alethophobia infects even one person, we can never attain universal unity.
2010, Susan Scott, Fierce Leadership:It sounds like a rare and serious psychiatric disorder, but I'm betting that two out of three people suffer from alethophobia.
2016, Leo Zaibert, The Theory and Practice of Ontology, page 258:And the root of such blindness, hostility, or indifference, cognophobia, misology (Kant) and "alethophobia” (or rather, fear of correct beliefs), is a past in which interest, interest-driven epistemic desires and interrogative stances have regularly lost out to a variety of practical considerations in particular to fear of unpleasant discoveries.
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