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Anonyphilia

(n.)

The cultivated taste for living unrecorded, where escaping surveillance has become the rarest luxury.

Travel brochures now cater to anonyphilia, advertising cabins with no record you were ever there.

Does it ring true?

From the future, or already here?

Coinage notes

From the Greek anonymos (nameless) + philia (love), kin to audiophilia and oenophilia, the -philias of the connoisseur rather than the clinic (pronounced a-non-ih-FEEL-ee-ah ). In many countries, new laws offer a “right to be forgotten”; anonyphilia names the growing appetite for it.

IDENTITY & BELIEF

Mnemophobia

(n.)
The fear of being too completely remembered by recording devices that chronicle every moment, with and without permission.

MONEY

Nopium

(n.)
A product or experience sold at a premium for what it leaves out, where the missing ingredient is the luxury.

IDENTITY & BELIEF

Polynymity

(n.)
The condition of being known by many names at once, where every identity is real and none is an alias.
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