thalassophobia
UK/θəˌlæ.səʊˈfəʊ.bi.ə/US/θəˌlæ.soʊˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
thalassophobia noun: a morbid fear of the sea or, more generally, deep, large bodies of water such as lakes.
Noun
thalassophobia (uncountable)
- A morbid fear of the sea or, more generally, deep, large bodies of water such as lakes.
- “I have been endeavoring all the winter to reason away my antipathy to the sea in order to avail myself of a very favorable occasion I now have of passing it—but I have a kind of thalassophobia that resists all kind of argument”1815, William Short, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1815
- Thalassophobia is the fear of the view of immense spaces or uninterrupted expanses. The Emperor Heraclius, at the age of fifty-nine, had an insurmountable fear of the view of the sea; and it is said that when he crossed the Bosphorus a bridge of boats was formed, garnished on both sides with plants...1937 George M. Gould. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine. Sydenham Publishers, New York
thalassophobia meaning in Tamil and Arabic
thalassophobia in Tamil
- கடலச்சம், கடலுயிரி வெருளி
thalassophobia in Arabic
- fear of the sea or deep waters
- رُهَابُ ٱلْبَحْر ruhābu l-baḥr
Examples of thalassophobia in a sentence
- The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic, archived from the...
- (Editor’s note: Those who suffer from claustrophobia, kabourophobia, arachnophobia or thalassophobia are advised to skip the above trailer.)2024 August 11, Andrew Torgan, Daniel Wine, “Start your week smart: Gymnast stripped of medal, Brazil plane crash, Trump campaign hack...
Origin of thalassophobia
From thalasso- + -phobia.
Words that rhyme with thalassophobia
- aerophobia
- gerontophobia
- homophobia
- hydrophobia
- -phobia
- agoraphobia
- bathophobia
- Francophobia
- phobia
- radiophobia
- uxorophobia
- xanthophobia
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- xenophobia
- ablutophobia
- acephobia
- acousticophobia
- acrophobia
- adverbophobia
- agraphobia
- aibohphobia
- aichmophobia
- algophobia
- altophobia
- amathophobia
- amaxophobia
- ambulophobia
- androphobia
- anthophobia
- aphobia
- apiphobia
- arachibutyrophobia
- arachnophobia
- astraphobia
- astrophobia
- aviatophobia
- aviophobia
- bacillophobia
- batrachophobia
- botanophobia
- brontophobia
- bryobia
- cacophobia
- cancerphobia
- carcinophobia
- claustrophobia
- clinophobia
- clithrophobia
- coulrophobia
- cynophobia
- decidophobia
- emetophobia
- epistolophobia
- erotophobia
- eurotophobia
- gephyrophobia
- graphophobia
- gymnophobia
- gynophobia
- heliophobia
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Questions about thalassophobia
- What does thalassophobia mean?
- Thalassophobia means a morbid fear of the sea or, more generally, deep, large bodies of water such as lakes.
- What is thalassophobia in Tamil?
- Thalassophobia in Tamil is கடலச்சம், கடலுயிரி வெருளி. See Thalassophobia meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use thalassophobia in a sentence?
- The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.
- What part of speech is thalassophobia?
- Thalassophobia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce thalassophobia?
- Thalassophobia is pronounced /θəˌlæ.səʊˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ (UK).
Words near thalassophobia in the dictionary
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