hodophobe
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From hodo- (“travel”) + -phobe.
Noun[edit]
hodophobe (plural hodophobes)
- Someone affected by hodophobia; someone having a fear of or aversion to travelling.
- Antonym: hodophile
- 1995 April, Jamie Diamond, “Fear of Flying (and other modes of transport)”, in Mademoiselle, volume 101, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 662:
- Carol, 26, another hodophobe, describes how she used to react to boarding a plane—before she stopped flying altogether (she wouldn't let us use her real name because she's embarrassed about her phobia): "I'd feel like I was walking to the electric chair. I'd cry, make a scene. I've canceled trips because I was so sure the plane was going to crash. I tried getting drunk, taking sedatives. But if you body thinks it's in danger, it's hard to calm down."
- 2016, Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language, Ne York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 46:
- While my bunkmates jotted cheery letters to their families, I whimpered into my pillow, an incipient hodophobe racked by some impossible mix of homesickness and wanderlust.
- 2019, Andrew Thompson, Spiders, Clowns, and Great Mole Rats, Berkeley, C.A.: Ulysses Press, →ISBN:
- Instances of death at sea are far less common than (hodophobes, look away) road accidents.