epistolophobia

Noun

epistolophobia (usually uncountable, plural epistolophobias)

1. (usually) An abnormal or irrational fear of correspondence, especially the receiving or writing of letters or messages.
   • One of the signs of Saussure's progressing reticence was what he himself called his epistolophobia or graphophobia. His letters to colleagues almost invariably began with apologies for a delay (sometimes of years) in responding.2012, Boris Gasparov, Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 31
   • Elsewhere, from Ancient Greek, we have "epistolophobia" (the fear of receiving correspondence)2018, Paul Anthony Jones, “The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities”, in TLS. Times Literary Supplement, number 6002, NI Syndication Limited

   Synonyms:

   graphophobia, logophobia, uncommunicative