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ancraophobia

ancraophobia noun: the fear of wind.

Noun

ancraophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The fear of wind.
    • If you suffer from agoraphobia (fear of wide open spaces), you might not want to move to North Dakota. Or ancraophobia (fear of wind), or psychrophobia (fear of cold) . . . not to mention treelessnessophobia, velveetaphobia, coupedupophobia.2012, Clay S[traus] Jenkinson, “[Culture] North Dakota is an Acquired Taste”, in For the Love of North Dakota and Other Essays: Sundays with Clay in the Bismarck Tribune, Washburn, N.D.: The Dakota...
    • After prodromal phase, patients show excitement; extreme fears including hydrophobia, photophobia, and ancraophobia; pharyngeal muscle spasm; and dyspnea. Hydrophobia and ancraophobia are typical symptoms but may be absent in some cases.2015, Jinhuan Wang, Qinghua Meng, “Rabies”, in Hongjun Li, editor, Radiology of Infectious Diseases, volume 1, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and People's Medical Publishing House, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    anemophobia

Examples of ancraophobia in a sentence

  • When it came up in conversation, her sister, Ellinore (who was only fifteen months younger than Gwendolyn), suggested she seek out a therapist who specialized in ancraophobia. […] "I don't know.2017, J Lenni Dorner, Fractions of Existence (The Existence Series; 1), →ISBN, pages 65 and 359:
  • Monday, the Queen learned she had ancraophobia, which is a fear of the wind.2019, Dawn Menge, Queen Vernita Conquers the Volcanic Islands, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
  • I may no longer suffer from astraphobia, but I do suffer from mild ancraophobia (fear of the wind).2019, Trevor Harley, “Weather and Belief”, in The Psychology of Weather (The Psychology of Everything), Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y....
  • If truth be told, when I used to live in Singapore and was still very young, I had what I later realized was called tachophobia (fear of speed) and ancraophobia (fear of the wind).2021, Saania Saxena, “Fears”, in Teenage Chronicles: My Journey of Self Discovery, London: Europe Books, →ISBN:

Synonyms of ancraophobia

Origin of ancraophobia

Unknown element (perhaps an error for anemo- (“wind”), see anemophobia) + -phobia.

Questions about ancraophobia

What does ancraophobia mean?
Ancraophobia means the fear of wind.
How do you use ancraophobia in a sentence?
When it came up in conversation, her sister, Ellinore (who was only fifteen months younger than Gwendolyn), suggested she seek out a therapist who specialized in ancraophobia. […] "I don't know.
What part of speech is ancraophobia?
Ancraophobia is a noun.

Words near ancraophobia in the dictionary

  1. ancorinosides
  2. ANCOVA
  3. ANCOVAs
  4. ancovenin
  5. Ancram
  6. ancraophobia
  7. ancred
  8. ancress
  9. ancresses
  10. ancrod
  11. Ancroft

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