单词 | monophobia |
释义 | monophobian. Psychiatry. 1. Fear of being alone. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > madness in one or many aspects monomania1815 polymania1828 oligomania1842 pantophobia1857 monoideism1860 monophobia1880 monopsychosis1883 1880 G. M. Beard Pract. Treat. Nervous Exhaustion (ed. 2) ii. 35 In some persons there exists what may be called monophobia, or fear of being alone. 1886 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 51/1 The list [of states of morbid fear] is as follows:..Monophobia, fear of being alone; [etc.]. 1899 R. Park tr. C. Féré Pathol. of Emotions xiv. 366 The fear of solitude, monophobia, manifests itself frequently in hysteria, in neurasthenia. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 428/1 The cerebral form [of neurasthenia] is sometimes termed psychasthenia, and is liable to present morbid fears or phobias, e.g. agoraphobia (fright in crowds), monophobia (fright of being alone), [etc.]. 1983 Verbatim Summer 20/2 Here are 120 more words that describe the terrors that go bump in our minds:..monophobia being alone. 2. A single (simple or specific) phobia (cf. monophobic adj.). ΚΠ 1909 W. F. Robertson & T. C. Mackenzie tr. E. Tanzi Text-bk. Mental Dis. v. 150 It is not to be forgotten that obsessive ideas almost always assume the form of a monophobia. 1989 Psychiatric Devel. 7 192 Twenty-four [patients] had monophobias. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1880 |
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