antlophobia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The fear of floods or inundation.

Word forms

antlophobia

Etymology

Presumably from Ancient Greek ἄντλος (ántlos, “hold of a ship; bilgewater”), also defined in LSJ as "a flood of water" + -phobia.

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