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.
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Epistolophobia
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Elsewhere, from Ancient Greek, we have "epistolophobia" (the fear of receiving correspondence)
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I am in fact carrying on no correspondence at all except with booksellers, and even that has now transitioned into the malady all too familiar under the name epistolophobia. [Footnote 4: “Fear of, aversion to letters.”]
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2019, Laura Hale Brockway, Phobias that stymie writers, Impertinent Remarks - from Ragan Communications PR Daily, url=https://impertinentremarks.com/phobias-that-stymie-writers/ Epistolophobia — fear of correspondence
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