Aimonomia
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.
French aimer, to love + nom, name. A palindrome. Pronounced “eym-uh-nohm-ee-uh.”
