Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of chronomentrophobia.
Perhaps they've developed chronometrophobia. Then again, she might have fallen out of the nest once too often as a chick, or maybe the constant tick tock has taken its toll.
2012, Richard J. Atkinson, Animal Pursuits, →ISBN2 more examples
The exhibition includes timepieces built into swords or masquerading as medicine cases, as well as paintings and watercolours about time in general.[…]Those who don’t suffer from chronometrophobia (fear of clocks), should find this exhibition satisfyingly intriguing.
2000 September 22, Samantha Ellis, “Last Chance”, in Evening Standard, London, section “Exhibition”, page 60One (Echolocation; Multitudes; The rooms we leave; Athazagoraphobia; Magician dreams; Housefly; Inchoate; Memory as diagnosis; Heroes; Superstitions; A brief history of salt; Chronometrophobia; Claustrophobia)
2018, Arthur Nahill, Murmurations, Auckland: Two Hemispheres Poetry, →ISBN
Origin
- Ancient Greekχρόνος“time”
- Englishchronometrophobia
From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”) (compare English chronometer (“device for measuring time”)) + -phobia.
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