Talk:ponophobia

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ponophobia

DTLHS (talk) 19:07, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

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1. • 2005, Carolyn Davidson, Word-A-Holic Quiz Book, Infinity Publishing, page 12

     Is ponophobia... c. the fear of mental or physical exhaustion?

   • 2001, Mitch C. Bronston, ‎Nils K. Oeijord, Human Behavior: The New Synthesis, Author's Choice Press -San Jose New York Lincoln Shanghai (unpaginated)

     Ponophobia, ponophobia (the fear of pain/work/being overworked).

   • 2009, Andrew M. Colman, Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, Oxford University Press, page 854

     (Phobias - Appendix 1) Work: ergophobia, ergasiophobia, or ponophobia.

   • 1991, John G. Robertson, Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements, Senior Scibe Publications, page 212

     Ponophobia, fear of fatigue, especially through overworking; a hatred for exerting oneself; dread of pain.

   • 2010, Ronald M. Doctor, ‎Ada P. Kahn, ‎Christine Adamec, The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties - Third Edition, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data, page 390

     Many phobic individuals have more than one phobia and hence are polyphobic. The fear of work or fatigue is known as ponophobia.

   • 1981, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society - Volume 44, Journal Publication, page 18

     Those who are handicapped by ponophobia - a morbid fear of work — should go into some other line of work besides medicine. I have known some physicians who were afflicted with what I like to call acute intermittent ponophobia.

   • 2013, Ellery Queen, Cat of Many Tails, Mysterious Press, (unpaginated)

     The paper he was interested in bore the alarming title of Ochlophobia, Nyctophobia, and Ponophobia; but when he glanced through it he found it to contain exactly what.

   • 2004, Richard Waters, Phobias: Revealed and Explained, Barron's Educational Series, page 40

     WORK ERGOPHOBIA Ur-go-foe-bee-ah Or PONOPHOBIA Pon-oh-foe-bee-ah Derived from the Greek words phobo or ergo, both meaning work or toil, ergophobia relates to anxieties of failing to complete a task properly, whereas ponophobia...

   • 2009, Shannon Payette Seip & Adrienne Hedger, If These Boobs Could Talk: A Little Humor to Pump Up the Breastfeeding Mom, Andrews McMeel Publishing - LLC, page 77

     Ponophobia—Fear of overworking

   • 2002, Chris Aldrich, The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families, National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication, page 233

     Ponophobia: overworking.

   • 2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books - Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group - Vancouver/Toronto/Berkeley, page 215

     Suddenly, you get a disconcerting attack of ponophobia, the dread of overworking or of pain.

   • 2014, Desh Subba - Translated by Rajendra Subba & Kumar Rai, Philosophy of Fearism: Life Is Conducted, Directed and Controlled by the Fear, Xlibris Publishing, page 346

     Ponophobia—Fear of overworking or of pain.

--- LexiphanicLogophile <3:11 pm Saturday, 17 September 2016 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)>

Looks like youfound two uses, to me. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:48, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

I think I agree. @LexiphanicLogophile, in the future, please try to only post citations that you think are valid in these discussions—it doesn't help anyone to have to wade through a long list of mentions to find a few uses. I've gone through the citations you added to the entry and removed the unambiguous mentions, leaving three citations. The 2006 quote is a solid use and the 1981 quote uses the term in italics, but I'm not sure about the 2013 quote, which uses it in a way that gives no apparent indication of what it's supposed to mean. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 16:07, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

I have added another use, albeit a rather self-conscious one that feels a bit mention-y. Do we consider this cited now? Kiwima (talk) 20:26, 26 April 2017 (UTC)