Meanings
- uncountableA fear of stars and celestial space.
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Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).
2018 March 7, Chewie, “Artsploitation Acquires ‘A Taste of Phobia’”, in ScareTissue, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eHs-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂stḗr
- Proto-Hellenic*astḗr
- Ancient Greekἀστήρ (astḗr)
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron)
- Englishastro-
- Englishastrophobia
Translations
Finnish astrofobia
- astrofobiafear of stars and celestial space
French astrophobie
- astrophobiefear of stars and celestial space
Icelandic stjörnufælni
- stjörnufælnifear of stars and celestial space
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with astrophobia
Cite this entry
astrophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/astrophobia
“astrophobia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/astrophobia. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “astrophobia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/astrophobia.
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