thaumatophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Would Professor Stanley have been lowered in the eyes of his enlightened audience, or his own, had he added, "whichever way it was effected, we may well believe that God interposed in behalf of His devoted servant." We repeat, such thaumatophobia can only compare with hydrophobia!"
- "Dr. Hatnmond’s views on Ecstasy, which are all the more interesting as the chapter is chiefly taken up with the discussion of the wonderful and perplexing case of Louise Lateau. The chapter should have followed the one on hydrophobia, and been entitled Thaumatophobia rather than Ecstasy, since the doctor exhibits a most contemptuous estimate of the intelligence of those who hold that there can be anything not explicable by the known laws of physiology in the most wonderful cases of ecstasia."
- "Superficial investigation is all too likely to fall into extremes, both equally dangerous: thaumatoclasm or thaumatophobia, which systematically denies any supernatural intervention, or takes a purely negative attitude to events; and thaumatomania or thaumatophilia, which wallows in the paranormal and lets it guide one's life."
- "The miraculous is the greatest obstacle to taking myth seriously by a modern theorist. One is struck, however, by the contrast between modern thaumatophobia and ancient thaumatophilia."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θαῦμα (thaûma) + -phobia.