sonophobia

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noun

An unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).

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Meanings

nounsonophobia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).

    There is no aura, there is some photophobia, sonophobia, and he goes to bed if possible.

    1999, Bernard Swerdlow, Whiplash and Related Headaches, Boca Raton: CRC-Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 595, →ISBN
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    Patients with this condition often develop so-called sonophobia marked by fears of and/or aversions to sounds that individuals with normal hearing tolerate easily and find innocuous.

    2013, David Brian Arciniegas, Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 403, →ISBN

    Like migraine headache, hemicrania continua is associated with nausea and vomiting, as well as sonophobia and phonophobia.

    2019 September 19, Steven D. Waldman, Atlas of Uncommon Pain Syndromes E-Book, Amsterdam: Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11, →ISBN

Origin

From sono- + -phobia.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

“sonophobia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sonophobia. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sonophobia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sonophobia.

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