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octophobia

octophobia noun: the irrational fear of the number eight.

Noun

octophobia (uncountable)

  1. The irrational fear of the number eight.
    • Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc. These numbers are called oudenophobia, henophobia, octophobia, decaphobia, dodecaphobia, enneadecaphobia and...2020 August, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, volume 8, number 8, →ISSN, archived from the...
    • People with octophobia experience anxiety when they think about or see the number 8.2022 March 22, “Octophobia (Fear of the Number 8)”, in Cleaveland Clinic, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2023

octophobia meaning in Tamil

octophobia in Tamil

எட்டாம் எண் அச்சம்

Origin of octophobia

From octo- + -phobia.

Questions about octophobia

What does octophobia mean?
Octophobia means the irrational fear of the number eight.
What is octophobia in Tamil?
Octophobia in Tamil is எட்டாம் எண் அச்சம். See Octophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is octophobia?
Octophobia is a noun.

Words near octophobia in the dictionary

  1. octopede
  2. octopedes
  3. octopeds
  4. octopeptide
  5. octopetalous
  6. octophobia
  7. octophone
  8. octophones
  9. octopi
  10. octopian
  11. octopic

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