Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A morbid fear of the ocean or of any large body of water.
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- noun A
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Etymologies
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Examples
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Coupled with aquaphobia may be an intense fear of the ocean, thalassophobia, or waves and wave-like motions, cymophobia.
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Satan Satanophobia scabies scabiophobia school (of going to) didaskaleinophobia scientific terms (complex) or Greek terms Hellenologophobia scratched (being) amychophobia sea thalassophobia semen spermatophobia sermons homilophobia sex (opposite) sexophobia sexual abuse agraphobia sexual feelings erotophobia sexual intercourse coitophobia sexual perversion paraphobia shadows sciophobia shellfish ostraconophobia shock hormephobia sin hamartophobia single (staying) anuptaphobia sitting down thaasophobia sitting still cathisophobia skin lesions dermatophobia skin disease dermatosiophobia
pangsuan Diary Entry pangsuan 2003
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9. Is an irrational fear of the sea known as: (a) auroraphobia, (b) thalassophobia, or (c) fishophobia?
March 2005 2005
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