ecophobia
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- œcophobia (archaic, rare)
Etymology[edit]
eco- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek: οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) and φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Noun[edit]
ecophobia (uncountable)
- Fear of one’s home.
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1995, International Reading Association, Journal of Reading:
- Many of our teenage hippies are in the streets today because they suffer from ecophobia.
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- A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc.
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1990, George F Will, Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home:
- No wonder the mood of the moment is ecophobia, the fear that the planet is increasingly inhospitable.
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