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automatonophobia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
au-tomatono-pho-bia
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Fear of humanlike figures, such as mannequins, wax figures, statues, dummies, animatronics, or robots.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree English automaton Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English automatonophobia From automaton + -o- + -phobia.

Usage

Inflected Forms

automatonophobias (plural)

Derived Forms

automatonophobiac

Questions

What does automatonophobia mean?
Fear of humanlike figures, such as mannequins, wax figures, statues, dummies, animatronics, or robots.
Where does automatonophobia come from?
Etymology tree English automaton Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English automatonophobia From automaton + -o- + -phobia.

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