a missing word

Jul 26, 2015 14:41

I need a word that I can't find. There are tremendous lists of specific arcane phobias, but there doesn't seem to be an official name for paralyzing fear of finishing, completing things. What is it ( Read more... )

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docstrange July 26 2015, 22:50:45 UTC
Gol'darnit... Well it's not decoraphobia. SO CLOSE! ;-)

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docstrange July 26 2015, 22:56:33 UTC
(more seriously, I think it would be based on consummatio, but I can't find it either...)

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lydy July 26 2015, 23:19:40 UTC
Usually, it's a form of perfectionism, which may be why it doesn't have its own name.

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apostle_of_eris July 26 2015, 23:20:19 UTC
Yeah, I fed "finish" and "complete" into Google translate, English to Greek and to Latin, then added -phobia and figured that if anything we're reasonably close, Google would figure it out from my "misspelling".
zilch

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andrewducker July 27 2015, 09:08:47 UTC
The Big List Of Phobias has nothing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias

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