acerophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This weekend is Halloween. Halloween means Holy evening, the day before all Saints day. Whatever the background and thoughts on its place in modern society, it is and always has been a day that people focus on all that is scary. Did you know that there are hundreds of things to be afraid of? For example, some people have what is called Acerophobia, which is the fear of foods being sour. – slice of lemon, anyone?"
- "Acerophobia patients are usually unable to think coherently about their fear for sour foods, and most times, their reason for resisting this food lack logical meaning to them. […] These two play a considerable role in almost all kinds of phobias, and acerophobia is one of them."
- "I am in hell and I have acerophobia so I developed Stockholm Syndrome"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Proto-Italic *akris Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁-os Proto-Italic *-iðos Proto-Italic *akriðos Latin acerbus Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English acerophobia From Latin acerbus (“sour”) + English -o- + -phobia.