hydrophobias

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A form of hydrophobia — An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the disease of rabies itself.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of hydrophobia

    Certain of these “hydrophobias” are marked by a fear of flowing surfaces because of photophobia.

    1910, Armand Marie, Pellagra, page 242
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    The Christian philosophy […] cannot understand […] how there are cancers and plagues and hydrophobias of the soul, the secret causes of those horrible diseases in the body.

    1875, William Henry Holcombe, Our Children in Heaven, page 286

    We are anesthetized against most terrors of land. […] HydroPhobias begin on land long before casting off. But once at sea, fear quickly is lost.

    1998, Reese Palley, Unlikely Passages, page 39
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