hydrophobophobia

English

Noun

hydrophobophobia (uncountable)

1. The fear of hydrophobia, or rabies.
   • 1877 September 15, “The Diagnosis of Hydrophobia”, in The Lancet, page 400:

     Those who have been exposed to the chance of inoculation frequently imagine that they have the disease, but it is rare that this hydrophobophobia induces symptoms resembling, except in the most superficial manner, the genuine malady, and we doubt whether there are any authenticated instances in which a disease unquestionably emotional in its origin ran a rapid course to a speedy death.

Synonyms

• lyssophobia