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nephophobia

nephophobia noun: the fear of clouds.

Noun

nephophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of clouds.
    • Another "ia" was evolving here, she felt, to send Mrs. Goodchild scuttling delightedly: nephophobia, a terror of clouds.2004, Peter Rushforth, Pinkerton's Sister, →ISBN, page 410
    • Lions, Tigers and Clouds….Oh My...Is it possible, you wonder, that I have Nephophobia?2011 July, Mark McCourt, “Curing Nephophobia”, in SECURITY, page 10

nephophobia meaning in Tamil

nephophobia in Tamil

முகில்வெருளி

Origin of nephophobia

From nepho- + -phobia.

Questions about nephophobia

What does nephophobia mean?
Nephophobia means the fear of clouds.
What is nephophobia in Tamil?
Nephophobia in Tamil is முகில்வெருளி. See Nephophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nephophobia?
Nephophobia is a noun.

Words near nephophobia in the dictionary

  1. nephomancy
  2. Nephop
  3. nephophile
  4. nephophilia
  5. nephophobe
  6. nephophobia
  7. nephoscope
  8. nephoscopes
  9. nephoscopy
  10. nephr-
  11. nephralgia

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