fears of being touched

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Haphophobia is a fear of being touched that is considered normal in one's social and cultural milieu. Haphephobia, a psychiatric term, is an abnormal equivalent. Both these terms have variants in which the initial 'H' is dropped.

Thixophobia, synonym for our hopefully well-respected haphophobia, derives from another Greek verb stem which means to touch, handle, or have sex with someone. Sometimes thixophobia? That seems quite sane and salutary. Doesn't it?

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Greek forms from which these terms derive (in above order of presentation)

ὁ ἁπτός ἅπτομαι ἅπτω, ἅπτειν

ἡ ἁφή, ῆς ἁφάω, ἁφᾶν

ἡ θίξις, εως θιχθῆναι θιγγάνω, θιγγάνειν

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teen squirm seen

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please cover me bea / my blind exiting the bus / conceal my spunk spurt / misqueme / teen scene

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English word-borrowings

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Ah, the ironies of English word-borrowings! Take 'numinous' for example: all about godly approbation in Latin; but in English, only aerie-faerie meanings.

nonce

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Was Xavier Xanthippe Xerophagy prone to twitterpation, or was it just for the nonce?

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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce

Melopœia & Logopoeia defined

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Logopoeia or Logopeia is "the dance of the intellect among words and ideas," Ezra Pound, 1917 in a review of the poetry of Mina Loy :-)

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Melopœia is the art of composing songs.(from definition by Oxford English Dictionary)

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