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Anthophobia, 鈥渁n abnormal fear of flowers,鈥� is surely one of the odder phobias, as opposed to acrophobia 鈥渁n abnormal fear of heights鈥� or arachnophobia 鈥渁n abnormal fear of spiders鈥� or鈥攁 good one!鈥�chiroptophobia 鈥渁n abnormal fear of bats (the flying mammal).鈥� Anthophobia is composed of two Greek nouns: 谩苍迟丑辞蝉 鈥渇lower鈥� and the combining form –辫丑辞产铆腻 鈥渇ear.鈥� Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603) suffered from anthophobia, especially of a fear of roses, which has no technical name. Anthophobia entered English in the 19th century.
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And if you dislike the task of summer gardening, you may even be a victim of anthophobia, the fear of flowers, although that’s a rare malady indeed.
Queen Elizabeth I is said to have been terrorized by roses, a subcategory of anthophobia, a generalized fear of flowers.
multiverse
noun
a hypothetical collection of identical or diverse universes, including our own.
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Multiverse, a combination of the common prefix multi– and (uni)verse, nowadays means 鈥渁 hypothetical collection of identical or diverse universes, ours included,鈥� a sense first suggested in 1952 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schr枚dinger (1887鈥�1961). Multiverse, however, was coined by the American psychologist and philosopher William James (1842鈥�1910). Multiverse to James was an alternative to or an opposite of universe and meant 鈥渢he universe imagined as lacking order, unity, or a single ruling and guiding power.鈥� James used multiverse in a lecture 鈥淚s Life Worth Living?鈥� in 1895.
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Multiverse proponents advocate the idea that there may exist innumerable other universes, some of them with totally different physics and numbers of spatial dimensions; and that you, I and everything else may exist in countless copies.
Ten days before he died, Stephen Hawking sent one more written insight out into the cosmos鈥攁 paper, co-written with physicist聽Thomas Hertog聽of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium,聽tackling the problem of a multiverse.
hamartia
noun
the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; tragic flaw.
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In Greek the noun 丑补尘补谤迟铆腻 means 鈥渇ailure, fault, error (of judgment), guilt, sin.鈥� Hamartia, if familiar at all, will be familiar as the term that the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384鈥�322 b.c.) uses in his Poetics for the personal defect or frailty鈥攖he tragic flaw鈥攖hat brings about the ruin of a prosperous or eminent man who is neither utterly villainous nor totally good, like, for instance, Oedipus. 贬补尘补谤迟铆腻 is a derivative of the verb 丑补尘补谤迟谩苍别颈苍 鈥�(of a spear) to miss the mark, (in general) to fail in one鈥檚 purpose, fall short, go wrong.鈥� 贬补尘补谤迟谩苍别颈苍 with its derivatives and related words, like about 60 percent of Greek vocabulary, has no known etymology. Hamartia entered English in the late 19th century.
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Every person was felt to have his or her hamartia鈥攁 tragic flaw, or potential for error in judgment that would frequently destroy an otherwise promising career. The most common among these flaws was hubris ….
… his hamartia (“error”) leads to the loss of all that matters to him, as well as to a puncturing of his former worldview.