OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 56913

thalassophobia

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talasofobia
A morbid fear of the sea or, more generally, deep, large bodies of water such as lakes.
1937 George M. Gould. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine. Sydenham Publishers, New York Thalassophobia is the fear of the view of immense spaces or uninterrupted expanses. The E…
“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 t…
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