Tuesday, December 10, 2013

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Word of the Day for Tuesday, December 10, 2013

ochlophobia \ok-luh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun:

Psychiatry. an abnormal fear of crowds.

"The man's got pedophobia, homichlophobia, dromophobia, xenophobia, ochlophobia, haphephobia, planomania, kleptophobia, thanatophobia, he's an onychophagist, he's got gerontophobia, but notice he has no dysphagia…"
-- George Friel, Mr. Alfred, M.A., 1972

As the plane leveled her discomfort ebbed. Agoraphobia. Demophobia. Enochlophobia. Ochlophobia. She knew the terms but refused to label her condition a phobia.
-- Rick Mofina, The Panic Zone, 2010

Ochlophobia entered English in the late 1800s from the Greek roots meaning "mob" and "fear."

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