thalassophobia
English
Etymology
thalasso- + phobia
Noun
thalassophobia (uncountable)
- A morbid fear of the sea.
- 1815, William Short, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1815:
- “I have been endeavoring all the winter to reason away my antipathy to the sea in order to avail myself of a very favorable occasion I now have of passing it—but I have a kind of thalassophobia that resists all kind of argument”
- 2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic:
- The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.
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