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teleophobia

noun

Etymology

From German Teleophobie in the late 19th century. The OED considers the word modern Latin, but the earliest appearance is in the writing of Karl Ernst von Baer in German in the 1860s. Whatever the immediate source it can be analyzed as teleo- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “purpose”) + -φοβία (-phobía, “-phobia”).

  1. derived from τέλος
  2. borrowed from Teleophobie

Definitions

  1. Reluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.

    • […]the teleophobia of biologists and physicists should not be carried over to the human sciences.

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