nephophobia

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noun

The fear of clouds.

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Meanings

nounnephophobia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe fear of clouds.

    Lions, Tigers and Clouds….Oh My...Is it possible, you wonder, that I have Nephophobia?

    2011 July, Mark McCourt, “Curing Nephophobia”, in SECURITY, page 10
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    Another "ia" was evolving here, she felt, to send Mrs. Goodchild scuttling delightedly: nephophobia, a terror of clouds.

    2004, Peter Rushforth, Pinkerton's Sister, →ISBN, page 410

    Natural environment phobias include weather-related conditions such as fear of thunderstorms (astrophobia), clouds (nephophobia), hurricanes (lilapsophobia), snow (chionophobia), cold (cryophobia), wind (ancraophobia), and rain (ombrophobia), among others.

    2014 August, Jill S. M. Coleman, Kaylee D. Newby, Karen D. Multon, Cynthia L. Taylor, “Weathering the Storm: Revisiting Severe-Weather Phobia”, in BAMS, page 1179

Origin

From nepho- + -phobia.

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