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acerophobia

acerophobia noun: a fear of or aversion to sourness or sour things.

Noun

acerophobia (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) A fear of or aversion to sourness or sour things.
    • This weekend is Halloween. Halloween means Holy evening, the day before all Saints day. Whatever the background and thoughts on its place in modern society, it is and always has been a day that people focus on all that is scary. Did you know that there are hundreds of things to be afraid of? For...2016 October 29, “Fear or Love - you choose.”, in The Vine Community Church, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024
    • Acerophobia patients are usually unable to think coherently about their fear for sour foods, and most times, their reason for resisting this food lack logical meaning to them. […] These two play a considerable role in almost all kinds of phobias, and acerophobia is one of them.2024 March 8, Emmanuella Oluwafemi, “Acerophobia: The Fear of Sourness”, in Home Quirer, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024

acerophobia meaning in Tamil

acerophobia in Tamil

புளிப்பு வெருளி

Examples of acerophobia in a sentence

  • For example, some people have what is called Acerophobia, which is the fear of foods being sour. – slice of lemon, anyone?2016 October 29, “Fear or Love - you choose.”, in The Vine Community Church, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024:
  • I am in hell and I have acerophobia so I developed Stockholm Syndrome2025 September 21, elparachute59, r/lemondemon, Reddit, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2026:

Origin of acerophobia

From Latin acerbus (“sour”) + English -o- + -phobia.

Questions about acerophobia

What does acerophobia mean?
Acerophobia means a fear of or aversion to sourness or sour things.
What is acerophobia in Tamil?
Acerophobia in Tamil is புளிப்பு வெருளி. See Acerophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use acerophobia in a sentence?
For example, some people have what is called Acerophobia, which is the fear of foods being sour. – slice of lemon, anyone?
What part of speech is acerophobia?
Acerophobia is a noun.

Words near acerophobia in the dictionary

  1. Acero
  2. acerogenin
  3. acerogenins
  4. acerola
  5. acerolas
  6. acerophobia
  7. acerose
  8. aceroside
  9. acerosides
  10. acerous
  11. acerra

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: acerophobia (page history and authors); acerophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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