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ASTRAPHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does astraphobia mean?
• ASTRAPHOBIA (noun)
The noun ASTRAPHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a morbid fear of thunder and lightning
Familiarity information: ASTRAPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A morbid fear of thunder and lightning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("astraphobia" is a kind of...):
simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)
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