Alethophobia

Quick meaning: Alethophobia is a noun meaning (psychology) A fear or dislike of the truth; an unwillingness to come to terms with truth or facts.

Meaning

(psychology) A fear or dislike of the truth; an unwillingness to come to terms with truth or facts.

Example Sentences

Is her "official science" fatally smitten with alethophobia?

If Alethophobia infects even one person, we can never attain universal unity.

It sounds like a rare and serious psychiatric disorder, but I'm betting that two out of three people suffer from alethophobia.

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.

Antonyms for alethophobia

Common opposites include alethophilia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alethophilia, truthaphobia, truthophobia, alethophobe, alethophile, atheophobia.

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