What does chronomentrophobia mean?
Chronomentrophobia means (rare) The fear of timepieces..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) The fear of timepieces..
I have chronomentrophobia, and believe me, having a director who understands that helps me a lot on the set because we don’t have a buncha A.D.’s running around yelling about the damn schedule.[…]“Okay, look. In ten minutes it’s time for my next meal and neural blessing. We’re on a tight clock, so we better get going.” Shane thought it was a strange remark for a man with chronomentrophobia.[…]“Chronomentrophobia?” Shane snorted. / “Fear of clocks,” Nicky answered. / “He actually gets away with shit like that?” Shane was appalled.[…]It was that kind of funny. But the room roared with laughter. Most of them probably hadn’t dealt recently with Michael’s chronomentrophobia—a comedy-killing ailment.
A:[…]Strain his brain as he might, Lawyer Ron [Petrie] cannot think of any medical conditions peculiar or unique to Saskatchewan, other than, of course, acrophobia, barophobia and chronomentrophobia. / Q: Yes, exactly, the actual medical terms for the irrational fears of, respectively, heights, gravity and clocks. And that’s not to mention the complex mental ailments, the extremes of euphoria and anxiety, that are consequential to investing way more emotion than is strictly speaking healthy into a football team.
The woman who visited more than a decade ago may have suffered from chronomentrophobia, a condition obviously not shared by [Allan] Symons, although his fascination with clocks is as much a mystery — even to him — as others’ irrational fear of them.
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Chronomentrophobia means (rare) The fear of timepieces..
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I have chronomentrophobia, and believe me, having a director who understands that helps me a lot on the set because we don’t have a buncha A.D.’s running around yelling about the damn schedule.[…]“Okay, look. In ten minutes it’s time for my next meal and neural blessing. We’re on a tight clock, so we better get going.” Shane thought it was a strange remark for a man with chronomentrophobia.[…]“Chronomentrophobia?” Shane snorted. / “Fear of clocks,” Nicky answered. / “He actually gets away with shit like that?” Shane was appalled.[…]It was that kind of funny. But the room roared with laughter. Most of them probably hadn’t dealt recently with Michael’s chronomentrophobia—a comedy-killing ailment.
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