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Definition of Acrophobia
1. Noun. A morbid fear of great heights.
Definition of Acrophobia
1. Noun. Fear of heights. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acrophobia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Acrophobia
1. Morbid fear of heights. Origin: acro-+ G. Phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrophobia
Literary usage of Acrophobia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"... corresponding fear of high places often noticed, called acrophobia ; so that
many people dare not trust themselves on high buildings or other eminences. ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"ESSENTIAL acrophobia. JK MITCHELL. acrophobia (fear of high places) in a degree
scarcely to be de- signated as pathological, is very frequent in nervous and ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"It has a more literal sense in acrophobia, a term used (by Verga) to indicate an
extreme or morbid dread of being at a great height and a marked uneasiness ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... acrophobia, the dread of heights, which may become so poignant as to make it
impossible for a person to sit in the front row of a gallery or even to say ..."
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