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apeirophobia

apeirophobia noun: the fear of infinity and/or eternity.

Noun

apeirophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of infinity and/or eternity.
    • My view is free from apeirophobia, the horror of the infinite, which colored so much of what was written at the beginning of this century about the foundations of mathematics.1990, Reinhardt Grossman, The Fourth Way: A Theory of Knowledge, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 227
    • The clearest evidence of Aristotle's apeirophobia is to be found in the Posterior Analytics, book 1, chapters 19-22.1998, P. Christopher Smith, The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 192

apeirophobia meaning in Tamil

apeirophobia in Tamil

முடிவிலிவெருளி, நீளச்சம்

Examples of apeirophobia in a sentence

  • Apeirophobia (fear of infinity) seems here to prod thanatophobia (fear of death) and necrophobia (fear of corpses) into being and later nonbeing, […]1999, Spencer Golub, Infinity (Stage), University of Michigan, published 2001, →ISBN, page 14:
  • But there does seem to be a small percentage of people with apeirophobia who first experienced fear even before adolescence, such as myself.2016 September 1, Bobby Azarian, “Apeirophobia: The Fear of Eternity”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2017:

Origin of apeirophobia

From apeiro- + -phobia.

Questions about apeirophobia

What does apeirophobia mean?
Apeirophobia means the fear of infinity and/or eternity.
What is apeirophobia in Tamil?
Apeirophobia in Tamil is முடிவிலிவெருளி, நீளச்சம். See Apeirophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use apeirophobia in a sentence?
Apeirophobia (fear of infinity) seems here to prod thanatophobia (fear of death) and necrophobia (fear of corpses) into being and later nonbeing, […]
What part of speech is apeirophobia?
Apeirophobia is a noun.

Words near apeirophobia in the dictionary

  1. apeirohedron
  2. apeirohedrons
  3. apeiron
  4. apeirophobe
  5. apeirophobes
  6. apeirophobia
  7. apeirotheism
  8. apeirotope
  9. apeirotopes
  10. apeish
  11. apekind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apeirophobia (page history and authors); apeirophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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