acrophobia

English

Etymology

From acro- +‎ -phobia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

acrophobia (countable and uncountable, plural acrophobias)

1. Fear of heights.

Synonyms

• altophobia
• height-fear

Antonyms

• bathophobia

Related terms

• acro-#Related_terms_2

Translations

fear of heights

• Bulgarian: страх от височина́ m (strah ot visočiná)
• Catalan: acrofòbia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懼高症／惧高症 (zh), 惧高症 (zh) (jùgāozhèng), 恐高症 (zh) (kǒnggāozhèng), 畏高症 (wèigāozhèng)

• Danish: højdeskræk c, akrofobi c
• Dutch: hoogtevrees (nl) (informal), acrofobie (formal)
• Finnish: korkean paikan kammo
• French: acrophobie (fr) f
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• German: Höhenangst (de) f, Akrophobie (de) f
• Hungarian: akrofóbia (hu), tériszony (hu)
• Irish: acrafóibe f
• Japanese: 高所恐怖症 (ja) (こうしょきょうふしょう, kōsho kyōfushō)
• Norwegian: akrofobi (no) m
• Portuguese: acrofobia (pt) f
• Russian: боя́знь высоты́ f (bojáznʹ vysotý), акрофо́бия (ru) f (akrofóbija)
• Swedish: höjdskräck (sv) c

See also

• batophobia

Further reading

• acrophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia