hylephobia

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  1. Morbid fear of materialism; dread of the result of materialistic doctrines. [Rare.] Hylephobia is now often regarded as a sacred madness, as epilepsy used to be. G. S. Hall, Amer. Jour. Psychol., Nov., 1887, p. 152.

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  1. from Greek ύλη, matter, + -φοβία, fear: cf. hydrophobia.
 

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