If "acrophobia" is the word for fear of heights, what would be the word for "fear of taking the high road"? Best I could come up with was road-induced acrophobia, but y'all are witty librarians and cunning linguists & stuff.
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Whatever it is, I can haz it.
- Lo
Aw man, nobody has ideas? I still can't think of a word.
- Lo
Don't know enough Latin.
- Spidra Webster
Acroviaphobia, maybe?
- COMPLICATED MR. NOODLE
I'm not sure how "high road" would translate into Greek. "Acro-" means "high" in the sense of being on a peak or mountaintop. It can also mean the tip of something, like a fingertip. So "high road" would probably use a different root. There might be an equivalent along the lines of "fear of doing the right thing."
- John (bird whisperer)
I wasn't actually looking for legit Latin (or Greek), just a good name for the concept. It's not fear of doing the right thing so much as a fear of trying to be better than someone else and the hairy self-righteousness that frequently results. Somehow I am a nicer, more popular person when I'm deliberately *not* trying to be nice. It's weird.
- Lo