English Explanatory Dictionary

nucleomitophobia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Fear of nuclear radiation, now especially atomic bombs.

Word forms

nucleomitophobia nucleomituphobia

Etymology

Coined by psychiatrist Milton Arnold Dushkin in the early 1960s, from nucleo- (“atomic nucleus”) + mito- (“mitosis”) + -phobia (“fear of”), in reference to a supposed resemblance of atomic fission to cellular division.

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