Meanings
- alternativeuncommonuncountableAlternative form of triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13.
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Our own feeling about thirteen, especially when joined with Friday, has added another to the long list of phobias; treiskaidekaphobia, or "fear of the number thirteen" (some of the other phobias are the well-known claustro-, acro-, and agora-, fear of being closed in, of heights, of open spaces, respectively; less known are ailurophobia, "fear of cats," iatrophobia, "fear of doctors," nucleomitotophobia,^([sic]) "fear of atomic bombs," mageiricophobia, "fear of having to cook," and, recalling FDR, phobophobia, "fear of fear itself.")
1965, Mario Pei, The Story of Language, page 254
Origin
- Ancient Greekτρεισκαίδεκα“thirteen”
- Englishtreiskaidekaphobia
From Ancient Greek τρεισκαίδεκα (treiskaídeka, “thirteen”) + -phobia.
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