epistolophobia

plural epistolophobias

1. uncountableusuallyAn abnormal or irrational fear of correspondence, especially the receiving or writing of letters or messages.

   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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   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

   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.”]

   1800, Wilhelm Schlegel, Letter to Johann Diederich Gries in Göttingen

   Synonyms: graphophobia, logophobia, uncommunicative