The exhibition includes timepieces built into swords or masquerading as medicine cases, as well as paintings and watercolours about time in general.[…]Those who don’t suffer from chronometrophobia (fear of clocks), should find this exhibition satisfyingly intriguing.
2012, Richard J. Atkinson, Animal Pursuits:
Perhaps they've developed chronometrophobia. Then again, she might have fallen out of the nest once too often as a chick, or maybe the constant tick tock has taken its toll.
2021 May 23, “Fear of watches (chronometrophobia): causes, symptoms and treatment”, in Yes, Therapy Helps:
Chronometrophobia is developed by classical conditioning, because it occurs by the association of a stimulus that initially causes a reflex response of fear and another that originally does not cause it.
