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anemophobia

anemophobia noun: a fear of or aversion from wind.

Noun

anemophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A fear of or aversion from wind.
    • Out­side storms assail the creaking home and can lead to the devel­opment of anemophobia, the fear of winds, as well as phono­phobia, the fear of noise.[1971 January 13, Hal Boyle, “According To Boyle”, in The Circleville Herald, 88th year, number 10, Circleville, Oh., page 4, column 3
    • Symptoms at the beginning of infection are anemophobia, low back pain, and a buoyant pulse in strong patients.1982, Keisetsu Ōtsuka, Dōmei Yakazu, Tōtarō Shimizu, Natural Healing with Chinese Herbs, page 521
    Synonyms:
    ancraophobia

anemophobia meaning in Tamil

anemophobia in Tamil

காற்று வீச்சு அச்சம்

Synonyms of anemophobia

Origin of anemophobia

From anemo- (“wind”) + -phobia. In some uses apparently a calque of Chinese 惡風 /恶风 (“aversion from wind (due to the coldness it brings about)”), a term used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Questions about anemophobia

What does anemophobia mean?
Anemophobia means a fear of or aversion from wind.
What is anemophobia in Tamil?
Anemophobia in Tamil is காற்று வீச்சு அச்சம். See Anemophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anemophobia?
Anemophobia is a noun.

Words near anemophobia in the dictionary

  1. anemophile
  2. anemophiles
  3. anemophilous
  4. anemophilously
  5. anemophily
  6. anemophobia
  7. anemophobic
  8. anemophylous
  9. anemophyte
  10. anemophytes
  11. anemopyretic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anemophobia (page history and authors); anemophobia (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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