didaskaleinophobia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek διδασκαλεῖον (didaskaleîon, “school”) + -phobia.
Noun[edit]
didaskaleinophobia (uncountable)
- The fear of going to school.
- 2019, Graham Duff, “Sleater-Kinney”, in Foreground Music: A Life in Fifteen Gigs, London: Strange Attractor Press, →ISBN, page 153:
- As well as claustrophobia, I also suffer from a condition that I can't even pronounce: Didaskaleinophobia. It translates as fear of schools. I only experienced a very minor form of this as a kid.