What does lilapsophobia mean?
Lilapsophobia means Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes..
Sophie lost everything she owned in a tornado and now suffers from lilapsophobia—fear of tornadoes—so she re-located from Oklahoma to Florida.
This sometimes results in lilapsophobia (the fear of tornadoes and hurricanes) which is expressed as an ongoing fear that any storms will become severe.
Jake listened as the newscaster reported a tornado approaching their general area from the southwestern corner of the county. She jumped and paled. “The storm!” He'd seen people with severe fears of storms before. But at the terror in her eyes, he knew it went deeper than that.[…]Lilapsophobia was a very real condition.
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Lilapsophobia means Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes..
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Sophie lost everything she owned in a tornado and now suffers from lilapsophobia—fear of tornadoes—so she re-located from Oklahoma to Florida.
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