phobian

phobian

See also: Phobian

English

Etymology

phobia +‎ -n

Noun

phobian (plural phobians)

1. One who is phobic or antagonistic towards something.
   • 1913, Metropolitan - Volume 38, page 34:

     Some years ago when I concocted the word futurism (it was a Spring night in Paris), I should have balanced it with pasteurism, which process I now suggest as a sociological relief from mountebanks, utilitarians, egotistical snobs of progress, press phobians, news delirians and loquacious neurasthenics suffering from various forms of auto suggestion.

   • 1997, The Concept - Volume 17, page 45:

     The time has now come to sever this connection between Western mediaeval phobians and Islam completely.

   • 2001, BJP Today - Volume 10, page 32:

     I am anguished to see the author, a votary of Hindutva restraining himself, advising Hindutva phobians to shed off their protest.

   • 2008, Hans-Georg Ehrhart, ‎Sabine Jaberg, & ‎Bernhard Rinke, Die Europäische Union im 21. Jahrhundert, →ISBN:

     The cynics and phobians are “a diverse collection of anti-federalist politicians and observers who believe that the 'Europe' project cannot help but be an anti-national, anti-democratic, conspiracy-without-a-centre of bureaucratic social democrats, whose goal, perhaps unwitting, is to turn Europe into a superstate controlled by a technocratic managerial elite."