The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀποφαίνω“to appear”
- German · borrowed fromApophänie
- English todayapophenia
From German Apophänie, from Ancient Greek ἀποφαίνω (apophaínō, “to appear”), from ἀπο- (apo-) and φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”), coined by German psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in 1958.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.