Meaning of alethophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level