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aërophobia

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See also: aerophobia

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Noun

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aërophobia (uncountable)

  1. Uncommon spelling of aerophobia.
    • 1911, Burton J. Hendrick, “Oxygenizing a City”, in William DeWitt Hyde, Nathan Haskell Dole, Caroline Ticknor, Albert Walter Tolman, James Rudolph Garfield, editors, Young Folks Library: Public Service[1], volume VI, Boston: Hall and Locke Company, page 356:
      This description, of course, fits most American cities, but in Chicago the fear of air — what might be called aërophobia — was especially acute.