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Meaning of teleophobia | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Reluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.

Equivalents

Deutsch Teleophobie

Examples

“In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.””

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

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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See also

teleophthalmology teleophyte teleopsia teleopsid teleoptile Teleorman

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