hodophobe
hodophobe noun: someone affected by hodophobia; someone having a fear of or aversion to travelling.
Noun
hodophobe (plural hodophobes)
- Someone affected by hodophobia; someone having a fear of or aversion to travelling.
- Carol, 26, another hodophobe, describes how she used to react to boarding a plane—before she stopped flying altogether (she wouldn't let us use her real name because she's embarrassed about her phobia): "I'd feel like I was walking to the electric chair. I'd cry, make a scene. I've canceled trips...1995 April, Jamie Diamond, “Fear of Flying (and other modes of transport)”, in Mademoiselle, volume 101, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 662
- While my bunkmates jotted cheery letters to their families, I whimpered into my pillow, an incipient hodophobe racked by some impossible mix of homesickness and wanderlust.2016, Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language, Ne York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 46
- Antonyms:
- hodophile
Antonyms of hodophobe
Forms of hodophobe
| plural | hodophobes |
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Origin of hodophobe
From hodo- (“travel”) + -phobe.
Questions about hodophobe
- What does hodophobe mean?
- Hodophobe means someone affected by hodophobia; someone having a fear of or aversion to travelling.
- What part of speech is hodophobe?
- Hodophobe is a noun.
- What is the plural of hodophobe?
- The plural of hodophobe is hodophobes.
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