Mathematical Emotions: Abstractitude Sickness
Abstractitude Sickness: the nausea of climbing to a new level of abstraction, like a vector space of functions.
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Abstractitude Sickness: the disorientation and nausea of ascending to a new level of abstraction. "A vector space of functions? Oog… I don't feel so good."