Meanings
noundidaskaleinophobia (uncountable)
- uncountableThe fear of going to school.
As well as claustrophobia, I also suffer from a condition that I can't even pronounce: Didaskaleinophobia. It translates as fear of schools. I only experienced a very minor form of this as a kid.
2019, Graham Duff, “Sleater-Kinney”, in Foreground Music: A Life in Fifteen Gigs, London: Strange Attractor Press, →ISBN, page 153
Origin
From Ancient Greek διδασκαλεῖον (didaskaleîon, “school”) + English -phobia.
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