hodophobe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone affected by hodophobia; someone having a fear of or aversion to travelling.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "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."
- "Instances of death at sea are far less common than (hodophobes, look away) road accidents."