sonophobia

English

Etymology

From sono- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

sonophobia (uncountable)

1. An unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).
   • 2013, David Brian Arciniegas, Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 403, →ISBN:

     Patients with this condition often develop so-called sonophobia marked by fears of and/or aversions to sounds that individuals with normal hearing tolerate easily and find innocuous.

   • 1999, Bernard Swerdlow, Whiplash and Related Headaches, Boca Raton: CRC-Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 595, →ISBN:

     There is no aura, there is some photophobia, sonophobia, and he goes to bed if possible.

   • 2019 September 19, Steven D. Waldman, Atlas of Uncommon Pain Syndromes E-Book, Amsterdam: Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11, →ISBN:

     Like migraine headache, hemicrania continua is associated with nausea and vomiting, as well as sonophobia and phonophobia.

Anagrams

• nosophobia