Meanings
- rareuncountablemedicineThe irrational fear of sitting down.
What if I suffer from kathisophobia?
2004 March 16, Dat, “UKSF Stats [Feb]”, in uk.sport.football (Usenet)2 more examples
While sitting, which had become for him a symbol of his profession as a goldworker, the patient was overcome by a tormented feeling of fear which eventually forced him to jump up. Beduschi (Rivista di Patol nerv e ment, 1904; cited in Bing, 1923) referred to an intense fear of sitting (kathisophobia).
1995, P Sachdev, Akathisia and restless legs, →ISBN, page 5Although my second case is more susceptible to the interpretation suggested by Raymond and Janet, it is not identical to theirs. Their case is one of akathisia secondary to a phobia resulting from a specific occupational aboulia (kathisophobia), mine did not show any phobia...
1995, Lad Haskovec, “New observations on akathisia”, in History of Psychiatry
Origin
- Ancient Greekκαθίζω“sit down”
- Englishkathisophobia
From Ancient Greek καθίζω (kathízō, “sit down”) + -phobia.
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