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dodecaphobia

dodecaphobia noun: fear of the number 12.

Noun

dodecaphobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of the number 12.
    • Suppose that you wanted to make a random-number [generator] that returns [all] random numbers between 1 and 20 [but] 12 (because you have […] dodecaphobia which […] is the fear of the number 12).2017, Doug Lowe, Java All-in-One, 5th edition
    • There’s also dodecaphobia, which is the (again, unofficial) fear of the number 12[.]2019 June, “Five phobias you didn’t know existed”, in BBC Bitesize, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2024

Origin of dodecaphobia

From dodeca- (“twelve”) + -phobia.

Questions about dodecaphobia

What does dodecaphobia mean?
Dodecaphobia means fear of the number 12.
What part of speech is dodecaphobia?
Dodecaphobia is a noun.

Words near dodecaphobia in the dictionary

  1. dodecaoxotetrasilicate
  2. dodecaoxotetrasilicates
  3. dodecapartite
  4. dodecapeptide
  5. dodecapeptides
  6. dodecaphobia
  7. dodecaphobic
  8. dodecaphobics
  9. dodecaphonic
  10. dodecaphonically
  11. dodecaphonics

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