siderodromophobia

noun

A morbid fear of railways.

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Meanings

nounsiderodromophobia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA morbid fear of railways.

    Anxiety dream redux; my subconscious couldn't frighten me with naked-on-the-streets-of-London, so it's iterated through loss-anxiety to a healthy dose of siderodromophobia.

    2015, Charles Stross, The Annihilation Score, page 335
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    […] or fear of microbes; siderodromophobia, or dread of railways; pathophobia, or fear of disease — with many subdivisions, of which the most important and most frequent are […]

    1894, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volumes 130-131, page 71

    But because your interpreter has the job of making sense of your scared feelings, it connects your sensation of panic to the train. Welcome to siderodromophobia, the fear of trains!

    1996, Sylvia Funston, Scary Science, page 8

Origin

From sidero- + dromo- + -phobia.

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