cosmophobia
English
Etymology
cosmo- + -phobia
Noun
cosmophobia (uncountable)
- fear or dread of outer space
- 1971, Rumanian review: Volume 25
- The cosmophobia is only a symptom. It is not we who fly into outer space; it is outer space that should come down to the earth.
- 2012, Brian Aldiss, The Dark Light Years
- As well as having an exploratory function, these flights were calculated to relieve cosmophobia.
- 1971, Rumanian review: Volume 25