Noun: emetophobia
Sample Sentences
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Faryl Zaklin, 38, of San Diego, California, is still overcoming a lifelong phobia that has given her numerous panic attacks; part of her recovery involved watching episodes of "Jackass" and "Family Guy." She has emetophobia: fear of vomit. [2010 June 15, Elizabeth Landau, “Who's afraid of snakes, spiders, vomit?”, in CNN:]
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Ignorant about vomiting before the incident, I was now terrified of it. I self-diagnosed myself with emetophobia – fear of vomiting. [2011 July 15, Dakshana Bascaramurty, “I had never vomited. Ever.”, in The Globe and Mail:]
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Not many people have heard of the condition emetophobia but I’ve lived with it for over 30 years and it was a worry when I was pregnant with my son, Hunter, last year. [2012 November 6, Sarah Cawood, Nilufer Atik, “Sarah Cawood: Having a baby helped me get over sick phobia”, in Daily Mirror:]
Nouns inflected like emetophobia
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From emeto- + -phobia.
Verbs referencing "emetophobia"
Finnish Nouns
emetofobia.