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ecophobia

ecophobia noun: fear of one’s home.

Noun

ecophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of one’s home.
    • (archaic, rare)
    • Many of our teenage hippies are in the streets today because they suffer from ecophobia.1995, International Reading Association, Journal of Reading
  2. A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc.
    • No wonder the mood of the moment is ecophobia, the fear that the planet is increasingly inhospitable.1990, George F Will, Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home

ecophobia meaning in Tamil

ecophobia in Tamil

மனை வெருளி

Synonyms of ecophobia

Origin of ecophobia

From eco- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek: οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) and φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

Questions about ecophobia

What does ecophobia mean?
Ecophobia means fear of one’s home.
What is ecophobia in Tamil?
Ecophobia in Tamil is மனை வெருளி. See Ecophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ecophobia?
Ecophobia is a noun.

Words near ecophobia in the dictionary

  1. ecophilosophers
  2. ecophilosophical
  3. ecophilosophically
  4. ecophilosophies
  5. ecophilosophy
  6. ecophobia
  7. ecophylogenetic
  8. ecophylogenetics
  9. ecophysical
  10. ecophysics
  11. ecophysiographic

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