amaxophobia
amaxophobia noun: fear of being in or riding in a vehicle.
Noun
amaxophobia (uncountable)
- Fear of being in or riding in a vehicle.
- I have known of at least two well marked instances of amaxophobia originating in the fright of being run away with and the effect of the shock abiding with them throughout the after life[…]1908, Charles Hamilton Hughes, The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 29, page 65
amaxophobia meaning in Tamil and Kannada
amaxophobia in Tamil
- ஊர்தி அச்சம்
amaxophobia in Kannada
- ಓಟದಂಜಿಕೆ
Origin of amaxophobia
Formed in English from Ancient Greek ἅμαξα (hámaxa, “waggon”) + -phobia, the latter element itself deriving from the Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía). The etymologically consistent spelling is *hamaxophobia, but that spelling is not attested outside word-lists and dictionaries.
Words that rhyme with amaxophobia
- aerophobia
- gerontophobia
- homophobia
- hydrophobia
- -phobia
- agoraphobia
- bathophobia
- Francophobia
- phobia
- radiophobia
- uxorophobia
- xanthophobia
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- xenophobia
- ablutophobia
- acephobia
- acousticophobia
- acrophobia
- adverbophobia
- agraphobia
- aibohphobia
- aichmophobia
- algophobia
- altophobia
- amathophobia
- ambulophobia
- androphobia
- anthophobia
- aphobia
- apiphobia
- arachibutyrophobia
- arachnophobia
- astraphobia
- astrophobia
- aviatophobia
- aviophobia
- bacillophobia
- batrachophobia
- botanophobia
- brontophobia
- bryobia
- cacophobia
- cancerphobia
- carcinophobia
- claustrophobia
- clinophobia
- clithrophobia
- coulrophobia
- cynophobia
- decidophobia
- emetophobia
- epistolophobia
- erotophobia
- eurotophobia
- gephyrophobia
- graphophobia
- gymnophobia
- gynophobia
- heliophobia
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
- hippophobia
Questions about amaxophobia
- What does amaxophobia mean?
- Amaxophobia means fear of being in or riding in a vehicle.
- What is amaxophobia in Tamil?
- Amaxophobia in Tamil is ஊர்தி அச்சம். See Amaxophobia meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is amaxophobia?
- Amaxophobia is a noun.
Words near amaxophobia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: amaxophobia (page history and authors); amaxophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amaxophobia (Kannada 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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