Doxaphobia
The acute anxiety or defensive pride triggered by validating or adopting someone else’s opinion over your own. It is an ego-driven fear that accepting an outside perspective diminishes your own personal intelligence or authority.
She read the data and knew her strategy was flawed, but her doxaphobia kicked in. Instead of adopting the team's superior plan, she spent two hours trying to find a loophole just to keep her original opinion alive.
Doxaphobia by Chauhan30 October 29, 2026