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chronomentrophobia

chronomentrophobia noun: the fear of timepieces.

Noun

chronomentrophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The fear of timepieces.
    • I have chronomentrophobia, and believe me, having a director who understands that helps me a lot on the set because we don’t have a buncha A.D.’s running around yelling about the damn schedule.[…]“Okay, look. In ten minutes it’s time for my next meal and neural blessing. We’re on a tight clock, so...2003, Stephen J. Cannell, Hollywood Tough (Shane Scully series), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, pages 143, 145, and 264
    • A:[…]Strain his brain as he might, Lawyer Ron [Petrie] cannot think of any medical conditions peculiar or unique to Saskatchewan, other than, of course, acrophobia, barophobia and chronomentrophobia. / Q: Yes, exactly, the actual medical terms for the irrational fears of, respectively, heights...2007 September 20, “What’s up Doc?”, in Leader-Post, Regina, Sask., page A3, column 5

chronomentrophobia meaning in Tamil

chronomentrophobia in Tamil

கடிகார வெருளி

Forms of chronomentrophobia

alternative formchronometrophobia

Origin of chronomentrophobia

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) and, in the rarer form without the n (chronometrophobia), μέτρον (métron, “measure”) (compare English chronometer (“device for measuring time”)), whereas in this form claimed in phobia lists to be from Latin -mentum (“means of, instrument, medium”), which, however, does not explain the r, thus likely originated as a misspelling; + -phobia.

Questions about chronomentrophobia

What does chronomentrophobia mean?
Chronomentrophobia means the fear of timepieces.
What is chronomentrophobia in Tamil?
Chronomentrophobia in Tamil is கடிகார வெருளி. See Chronomentrophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chronomentrophobia?
Chronomentrophobia is a noun.

Words near chronomentrophobia in the dictionary

  1. chronomancers
  2. chronomancy
  3. chronomantic
  4. chronomedical
  5. chronomedicine
  6. chronomentrophobia
  7. chronometabolic
  8. chronometabolism
  9. chronometer
  10. chronometers
  11. chronometre

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