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Aimonomiaeym-uh-nohm-ee-uh

n. The fear that learning the name of something--a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger--will somehow ruin it, inadvertently transforming a lucky discovery into a conceptual husk pinned in a glass case, leaving one less mystery fluttering around in the universe.

Etymology

French aimer, to love + nom, name. A palindrome.

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