aquaphobian.
/ˌakwəˈfəʊbɪə/, U.S. /ˌɑkwəˈfoʊbiə/, /ˌækwəˈfoʊbiə/ Aversion to, or fear of water; (now usually) fear of drowning in a body of water. Cf. hydrophobia n.
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the mind > emotion > fear > fear of particular things > [noun] > fear of water or the sea
aquaphobia1875
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational fears
pneumatophobia1678
hydrophobia1760
aerophobia1771
panophobia1784
phobia1786
pantophobia1807
necrophobia1833
phoby1834
syphilomania1838
hippophobia1840
phonophobia1841
syphilophobia1842
scotophobia1844
astrophobia1855
sitomania1859
sitophobia1859
thanatophobia1860
Satanophobia1861
batrachophobia1863
panphobia1870
agoraphobia1871
bogyphobia1872
pathophobia1873
aquaphobia1875
toxiphobia1876
claustrophobia1879
cynophobia1879
mysophobia1879
siderodromophobia1879
phthisiophobia1883
sitiophobia1884
ochlophobia1885
sitiomania1887
acrophobia1888
zoophobia1888
leprophobia1889
nosophobia1889
pamphobia1890
bacteriophobia1894
tuberculophobia1894
taeniiphobia1897
thalassophobia1897
topophobia1899
dysmorphophobia1900
akathisia1903
cremnophobia1903
musicophobia1903
ailurophobia1905
brontophobia1905
phobism1914
arachnophobia1925
school phobia1930
coprophobia1934
mycophobia1957
arachniphobia1966
computer phobia1972
coulrophobia1997
1875 U.S. Med. Investigator 15 May 431 Effects of drinking.—Aquaphobia... A very large percentage of the population never taste water as a beverage, but drink beer, wine, and..whisky every day.
1909 Providence Med. Jrnl. 10 178 Ergophobia, or fear of work, an affliction which has for complications such other maladies as aquaphobia and sapophobia.
1933 Times 12 Oct. 12/4 That extraordinary sickness and nervousness I get over water. I suppose doctors would call it aquaphobia.
1972 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 79 Feb. 21/1 ‘Aquaphobia’ was regarded as an important health problem because it frequently retards the development of swimming skills.
2012 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 20 Mar. d1 My aquaphobia hasn't prevented me from going on Banshee's boat in summers past, but I rarely get in the water.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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