anemophobia

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noun

A fear of or aversion from wind.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounanemophobia (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableA fear of or aversion from wind.

    Symptoms at the beginning of infection are anemophobia, low back pain, and a buoyant pulse in strong patients.

    1982, Keisetsu Ōtsuka, Dōmei Yakazu, Tōtarō Shimizu, Natural Healing with Chinese Herbs, page 521
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    Out­side storms assail the creaking home and can lead to the devel­opment of anemophobia, the fear of winds, as well as phono­phobia, the fear of noise.

    [1971 January 13, Hal Boyle, “According To Boyle”, in The Circleville Herald, 88th year, number 10, Circleville, Oh., page 4, column 3

    The label on the company's literature states that the herb can be used in the therapy of rheumatism, obstetrical rheumatism, headache, anemophobia, paralysis, back neuralgia, bone pain, acute or chronic neuralgia and other pain caused by rheumatism.

    1982, Robert J. Peshek, Searching for Health, page 61

    However, it differs from the latter in that a muscle-resolving drug is used in a conformation with fever, generalized aching, and hidrosis though the fever is not resolved by perspiration, and there are also the accompanying symptoms of chillphobia and anemophobia — a condition or conformation known as "surface weakness".

    1984, Bulletin of the Oriental Healing Arts Institute of U.S.A.

    Synonyms: ancraophobia

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA fear of or aversion from wind.

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Origin

  1. Chinese惡風 /恶风“aversion from wind (due to the coldness it brings about)”
  2. Englishanemophobia

From anemo- (“wind”) + -phobia. In some uses apparently a calque of Chinese 惡風 /恶风 (“aversion from wind (due to the coldness it brings about)”), a term used in traditional Chinese medicine.

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