Word.ws English Dictionary

basiphobia

basiphobia is the alternative form of basophobia.

Meaning of basophobia

Noun

basophobia (uncountable)

  1. Inability to walk or stand erect, due to emotional causes.
    • In basophobia the patient by a sort of auto-suggestion persuades himself that it is impossible to stand upon his legs.1908, A reference handbook of the medical sciences
  2. Fear of falling

Origin of basiphobia

By surface analysis, bas- + -i- + -phobe + -ia.

Questions about basiphobia

What is basiphobia the alternative form of?
Basiphobia is the alternative form of basophobia.

Words near basiphobia in the dictionary

  1. basipetal
  2. basipetally
  3. basiphallus
  4. basipharyngeal
  5. basiphilous
  6. basiphobia
  7. basipinacocyte
  8. basipinacocytes
  9. basiplastic
  10. basipod
  11. basipodal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: basiphobia (page history and authors); basophobia (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “basiphobia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/basiphobia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.