Word of the Day: ASTRAPHOBIA


ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ἀστραπή (astrape lightning) + phobos (fear)


EXAMPLE
“…These nervous perturbations, in their various degrees, have seemed to me to be sufficiently frequent and distinctive to entitle them to be regarded as a separate disease. To this disease I have given the name Astraphobia…”

From: Te Popular Science Monthly
Conducted by E. L. Youmans, Vol. IV. February 1874
Atmospheric Electricity and Ozone

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