Citations:onomatophobia

English citations of onomatophobia

• 1919, Journal of the American Medical Association, page 1254:

  What we are dealing with (to continue with this naive terminological joking) is another phobia, onomatophobia. One must, of course, acknowledge that terms for exact and complex things can hardly ever become much less precise, and much more simple than the facts, without destroying the facts.

• 1919, American Medical Association, Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases, Transactions, page 107:

  In any event, the immediate duties of the general practitioner do not carry him into actual mares' nests of terminology. Suppose the psychopathophobia and onomatophobia to be sufficiently rationalized.

• 1957, George Richard Marek, The world treasury of grand opera: its triumphs, trials, and great personalities:

  And in his old age he suffered from a strange onomatophobia: "I am horrified," he said, "when I read my own name; it smells dusty.

• 1992, Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing:

  What brought the issue to crisis was when I read my paper, written before my difficulty began, on onomatophobia as the genesis of language in Finnegan 's Wake…