Hydrophobophobia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The fear of hydrophobia, or rabies. uncountable

    "Those who have been exposed to the chance of inoculation frequently imagine that they have the disease, but it is rare that this hydrophobophobia induces symptoms resembling, except in the most superficial manner, the genuine malady, and we doubt whether there are any authenticated instances in which a disease unquestionably emotional in its origin ran a rapid course to a speedy death."

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lyssophobialyssophobia

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"Those who have been exposed to the chance of inoculation frequently imagine that they have the disease, but it is rare that this hydrophobophobia induces symptoms resembling, except in the most superficial manner, the genuine malady, and we doubt whether there are any authenticated instances in which a disease unquestionably emotional in its origin ran a rapid course to a speedy death."

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