hydrophobias

English

Noun

hydrophobias

1. plural of hydrophobia
   • 1875, William Henry Holcombe, Our Children in Heaven, page 286:

     The Christian philosophy ... cnanot understand ... and how there are cancers and plagues and hydrophobias of the soul, the secret causes of those horrible diseases in the body.

   • 1910, Armand Marie, Pellagra, page 242:

     Certain of these “hydrophobias” are marked by a fear of flowing surfaces because of photophobia.

   • 1998, Reese Palley, Unlikely Passages, page 39:

     We are anesthetized against most terrors of land. ... HydroPhobias begin on land long before casting off. But once at sea, fear quickly is lost.