English

Noun

hydrophobias

1. plural of hydrophobia

   William Henry Holcombe, Our Children in Heaven (1875) p. 286.

   • The Christian philosophy ... cnanot understand ... and how there are cancers and plagues and hydrophobias of the soul, the secret causes of those horrible diseases in the body.

   Armand Marie, Pellagra (1910) p. 242.

   • Certain of these “hydrophobias” are marked by a fear of flowing surfaces because of photophobia.

   Reese Palley, Unlikely Passages (1998) p. 39.

   • We are anesthetized against most terrors of land. ... HydroPhobias begin on land long before casting off. But once at sea, fear quickly is lost.