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œcophobia

œcophobia is the archaic spelling of ecophobia.

Meaning of ecophobia

Noun

ecophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of one’s home.
    • (archaic, rare)
  2. A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc.
    • No wonder the mood of the moment is ecophobia, the fear that the planet is increasingly inhospitable.1990, George F Will, Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home

Questions about œcophobia

What is œcophobia the archaic spelling of?
Œcophobia is the archaic spelling of ecophobia.

Words near œcophobia in the dictionary

  1. œconomize
  2. œconomized
  3. œconomizes
  4. œconomizing
  5. œconomy
  6. œcophobia
  7. œcumene
  8. œcumenic
  9. œcumenical
  10. œcumenical council
  11. œcumenical councils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: œcophobia (page history and authors); ecophobia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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