noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Fear of one’s home. uncountable

   "(archaic, rare)"

2. 2
   A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc. uncountable

   "No wonder the mood of the moment is ecophobia, the fear that the planet is increasingly inhospitable."

Synonyms

All synonyms

oecophobiaoikophobiaœcophobia

Example

More examples

"Many of our teenage hippies are in the streets today because they suffer from ecophobia."

Etymology

From eco- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek: οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) and φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

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