Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of basophobia.
Basiphobia is the psychic element characteristic of pseudotabetics; also agarophobia and stasiphobia.
1922, International Medical Digest, page 3741 more example
The book recommended walking, but if you had basiphobia or you were in a hurry, you could try biking instead. If Mom had biked to her office that day, she'd have released her stress and not crashed the car. But who knows?
2009, Catherine Austen, Walking Backward, page 109
Origin
By surface analysis, bas- + -i- + -phobe + -ia.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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