cosmophobic

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Etymology

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cosmophobia +‎ -ic

Adjective

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cosmophobic (comparative more cosmophobic, superlative most cosmophobic)

  1. Exhibiting cosmophobia; being afraid of outer space.
    • 1972, Samy Mokhtar Abdel Malik, The Conquest of Cosmophobia, Roseneath Scientific Publications, →ISBN, page 314:
      The cosmophobic equivalent of erotic phallophilia (male homosexuality) is erotic phallophobia, that is, the fear of homosexuality, specifically of passive homosexuality, which is closely related to androphobic shame in men.
    • 1974, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, Canadian Psychiatric Association., page 419:
      This scatism shares with cosmophobic phagism the cosmophobic level of awareness, although there can be no doubt that both culturally and individually cosmophobic phagism is far more important that scatism.