Ecophobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ecophobia is a noun meaning Fear of one’s home.
Meaning
Fear of one’s home.
More Meanings
- A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc.
Example Sentences
(archaic, rare)
Many of our teenage hippies are in the streets today because they suffer from ecophobia.
No wonder the mood of the moment is ecophobia, the fear that the planet is increasingly inhospitable.
Synonyms for ecophobia
Depending on context, synonyms include oecophobia, oikophobia.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include oikophobia, nostophobia, domatophobia, kenophobia, ethnophobia, phobiaphobia.
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