单词 | traumatophobia |
释义 | traumatophobia (extremely rare) n If you avoid playing sports because you're deathly afraid of hurting yourself, you might suffer from traumatophobia, or a fear of being physically hurt. A psychiatrist might diagnose a patient with traumatophobia, also known as "injury phobia," if her fear of getting injured keeps her from living a normal life. Her traumatophobia, for example, could make her too scared to drive a car. The word itself is pretty much the sum of its parts: the Greek word trauma means "wound," and phobia comes from the Greek phobos, or "fear." WORD FAMILYtraumatophobia n a morbid fear of battle or physical injury Hyper social phobia any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with situations in which you are subject to criticism by others (as fear of eating in public or public speaking etc) |
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