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ACROPHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does acrophobia mean?
• ACROPHOBIA (noun)
The noun ACROPHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a morbid fear of great heights
Familiarity information: ACROPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A morbid fear of great heights
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("acrophobia" is a kind of...):
simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)
Derivation:
acrophobic (suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places)
Context examples
Acrophobia is a fear of heights.
(Phobias, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
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