Snakephobia

Quick meaning: Snakephobia is a noun meaning Fear of snakes.

Meaning

Fear of snakes.

Example Sentences

One person may have snakephobia, another ratphobia ,and still another may have ghostphobia. In fact, it is possible to develop a phobia about almost any thing.

Unfortunately, say Millerton rangers, many harmless snakes suffer death because people can not recognize one snake from another or because of “snakephobia,” which case any snake is only a good snake when it’s a dead snake.

One may say that snakephobia is common to all human beings, and Charles Darwin has described most impressively how he was unable to control his fear of a snake pointing for him, though he knew he was separated from it by a thick pane of glass.

His mother “never could abide” the serpent; its Freischutzian tones were unearthly in the old lady’s ears, and seemed to fret her bowels into fiddle strings, and positively turn her inside out, as the old lady declared just before her death, which occurrence was doubtless hastened by the violence of her snakephobia.

Word Forms

• snake-phobia

Synonyms for snakephobia

Depending on context, synonyms include ophidiophobia, ophiophobia, snake-fright.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snake-phobia, ophiophobia, snake-fright, ophidiophobia, herpetophobia, ophidiophobe.

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