Meanings
plural scelerophobes
- One who suffers from scelerophobia.
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A scelerophobe can experience physical symptoms such as hot flashes or chills, dizziness, nausea, numbness, tachycardia, and hyperventilation, to name a few. […] In other words, someone who has been brought up by scelerophobes has potentially learned to develop scelerophobia; another case in which this fear could arise would be by direct exposure to criminal activity.
2023 September 26, Abby Roch, “My house was broken into. Now I have developed a fear of thieves called scelerophobia.”, in Business Insider
Origin
From the stem of Latin scelus + -o- + -phobe.
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scelerophobe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scelerophobe
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