ochlophobic

comparative more ochlophobic · superlative most ochlophobic

1. Having an aversion to crowds.

plural ochlophobics

1. rareSynonym of ochlophobe.

   If they are in a crowd, ochlophobics may fear that they cannot get out fast enough, or that there is no place that is safe with so many people around.

   1996, Judy Monroe, “Ochlophobia, demophobia, enochlophobia”, in Phobias: Everything You Wanted to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask (Issues in Focus), Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, →ISBN, chapter 4 (An A to Z List of Phobias), page 63

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   Let ochlophobics in their towers stay, Hugging their egos ’gainst the Master Plan. / I shall ne’er boast that I am not as they, / But glad that I’m an advertising man.

   1948, Henry Obermeyer, quotee, The Advertising Agency, volume 41, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, page 38, column 2

   “Hello indeed,” he said, causing Tynee’s ridiculous pretensions to evaporate as fast as the cryogenic helium from the golf cart, and leaving him with an expression more timorous than that of an ochlophobic who suddenly and inexplicably fmds himself naked and on third base at the World Series opener with a hundred thousand drunken sports fans pointing at him and guffawing.

   2001, Tony Vigorito, chapter 77, in Just a Couple of Days, Columbus, Oh.: Bast Books, →ISBN, page 173

   Synonyms: ochlophobe