phthisiophobian.
/ˌ(f)θɪzɪə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/, U.S. /ˈˌθɪzioʊˈfoʊbiə/ Medicine. Now historical.
An irrational or exaggerated fear of tuberculosis.
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pneumatophobia1678
hydrophobia1760
aerophobia1771
panophobia1784
phobia1786
pantophobia1807
necrophobia1833
phoby1834
syphilomania1838
hippophobia1840
phonophobia1841
syphilophobia1842
scotophobia1844
astrophobia1855
sitomania1859
sitophobia1859
thanatophobia1860
Satanophobia1861
batrachophobia1863
panphobia1870
agoraphobia1871
bogyphobia1872
pathophobia1873
aquaphobia1875
toxiphobia1876
claustrophobia1879
cynophobia1879
mysophobia1879
siderodromophobia1879
phthisiophobia1883
sitiophobia1884
ochlophobia1885
sitiomania1887
acrophobia1888
zoophobia1888
leprophobia1889
nosophobia1889
pamphobia1890
bacteriophobia1894
tuberculophobia1894
taeniiphobia1897
thalassophobia1897
topophobia1899
dysmorphophobia1900
akathisia1903
cremnophobia1903
musicophobia1903
ailurophobia1905
brontophobia1905
phobism1914
arachnophobia1925
school phobia1930
coprophobia1934
mycophobia1957
arachniphobia1966
computer phobia1972
coulrophobia1997
1883 Lancet 8 Dec. 992/1 He thought we were in danger of establishing a ‘phthisiophobia’ out of these most recent doctrines.
1906 J. B. Huber Consumption xi. 445 It is really deplorable to consider the degree of cruelty and selfishness to which this phthisiophobia has driven people.
1948 F. M. Pottenger Tuberculosis xxxvi. 579 If we frighten people into believing that tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease.., we create an unnecessary and harmful phthisiophobia, which reacts against the patient.
1994 New Yorker 18 July 78/2 They inspired a fear in the general public which consumptives had never done—a fear that ‘earned its own sobriquet: phthisiophobia’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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