ochlophobist

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noun

A person with a phobia, or fear, of mob-like crowds, as opposed to simply open spaces like agoraphobia or large crowds as with enochlophobia.

OriginAncient Greek ὄχλος →
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Meanings

nounochlophobist (plural ochlophobists)

plural ochlophobists

  1. obsoleterareA person with a phobia, or fear, of mob-like crowds, as opposed to simply open spaces like agoraphobia or large crowds as with enochlophobia.

    The Easter Trip of Two Ochlophobists.

    1867 July–December, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 102, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, page 42
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    "The ochlophobist has but a hard time in London just now," remarked the Daily News on December 5, 1882, and we have known subsequent occasions when we would have thanked the Daily News for that word.

    1882 December 5, The Academy and Literature, quotee, Daily News, London

    I had long before become an ochlophobist. A detester of crowds.

    2003 May 7, Alan Wall, “Section 26”, in The School of Night: A Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 223

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
ochlophobe

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekὄχλος“crowd”
  2. Englishochlophobist

From Ancient Greek ὄχλος (ókhlos, “crowd”) + -phobist.

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ochlophobist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ochlophobist

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Chicago

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