| \law-guh-FOH-bee-uh, log-uh-\ | noun
1. an obsessive fear of words.
| | Quotes | There is just one cure for logophobia, and that is self-scrutiny--to discover whether one's reaction to a given term when seen in a newspaper or heard from a platform is really justified by the true significance.
-- , "Logophobia," The Nation, August 23, 1919 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of logophobia | | Logophobia stems from the Greek terms lógos meaning "a word, saying, speech, discourse, thought, proportion, ratio, reckoning" and phóbos meaning "fear." It entered English in the 1920s. | |
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