apeirophobia

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apeirophobia

Etymology

From apeiro- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

apeirophobia (uncountable)

The fear of infinity and/or eternity.
- 1990, Reinhardt Grossman, The Fourth Way: A Theory of Knowledge, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 227:
  My view is free from apeirophobia, the horror of the infinite, which colored so much of what was written at the beginning of this century about the foundations of mathematics.
- 1998, P. Christopher Smith, The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 192:
  The clearest evidence of Aristotle's apeirophobia is to be found in the Posterior Analytics, book 1, chapters 19-22.
- 1999, Spencer Golub, Infinity (Stage), University of Michigan, published 2001, →ISBN, page 14:
  Apeirophobia (fear of infinity) seems here to prod thanatophobia (fear of death) and necrophobia (fear of corpses) into being and later nonbeing, […]
- 2016, Bobby Azarian, "Apeirophobia: The Fear of Eternity", The Atlantic
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:apeirophobia.

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