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sonophobia

sonophobia noun: an unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).

Noun

sonophobia (uncountable)

  1. An unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).
    • Patients with this condition often develop so-called sonophobia marked by fears of and/or aversions to sounds that individuals with normal hearing tolerate easily and find innocuous.2013, David Brian Arciniegas, Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 403, →ISBN
    • There is no aura, there is some photophobia, sonophobia, and he goes to bed if possible.1999, Bernard Swerdlow, Whiplash and Related Headaches, Boca Raton: CRC-Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 595, →ISBN

sonophobia meaning in Tamil

sonophobia in Tamil

ஒலி வெருளி

Origin of sonophobia

From sono- + -phobia.

Questions about sonophobia

What does sonophobia mean?
Sonophobia means an unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).
What is sonophobia in Tamil?
Sonophobia in Tamil is ஒலி வெருளி. See Sonophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sonophobia?
Sonophobia is a noun.

Words near sonophobia in the dictionary

  1. sonomyography
  2. sonopathology
  3. sonopermeabilization
  4. sonophobe
  5. sonophobes
  6. sonophobia
  7. sonophobic
  8. sonophoresis
  9. sonophoretic
  10. sonophotocatalysis
  11. sonoporated

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