arachnophobian.
/əˌraknəʊˈfəʊbɪə/ Irrational fear of spiders.
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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
1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 198/1 The gift was hardly in the category of apes, ivory, and peacocks. Still, as an antidote to nightmare, especially in the form of arachnophobia, I have no doubt it proved ‘a sovran remedie’.
1983 Listener 11 Aug. 33/2 Luis even made strenuous efforts to overcome his arachnophobia, since it unbalanced his otherwise even-handed view of the creation.
1990 Independent 16 Jan. 15/6 Mrs Guy lived with arachnophobia from childhood, but it grew worse when her last daughter married and left home.
Derivatives
aˈrachnophobe n. a person who is frightened of spiders.
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hydrophobist1840
phobist1883
acrophobe1894
agoraphobe1894
agoraphobic1898
ailurophobe1905
claustrophobe1911
phobiac1911
phobic1911
arachnophobe1925
claustrophobiac1934
claustrophobic1953
mycophobe1957
aerophobe1966
necrophobe1973
computerphobe1974
aerophobic1978
computer-phobic1983
toxiphobiac-
1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 197/2 Solomon presented the bottle to the Queen of Sheba, or his little Arachnophobe, as he called her. ‘Take it home with you,’ he said; ‘then you won't dream about spiders any more.’
1989 Daily Tel. 30 Mar. 19/3 Spiders in the bath need no longer terrify arachnophobes, thanks to a newly invented miniature ladder which allows the insects to clamber to safety over the slippery enamel.
Draft additions 1997
arachnophobic adj. and n. (one who is) frightened of spiders; causing or exploiting fear of spiders.
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1986 Amer. Libraries May 357/3 Some questions require ingenuity to answer: ‘What nursery rhyme character was arachnophobic?’ (Answer: Little Miss Muffet.)
1990 Los Angeles Times 17 Sept. f10/2 Saturday night it was Morton Downey Jr., who got some good laughs with his arachnophobic tale, but he wasn't as scary as he usually is.
1992 Daily Tel. 25 Feb. 17/3 Arachnophobics would do well to avoid the new Westminster offices of the Department of Education and Science (DES), whose plant-filled atrium..has become infested by flies, leading in turn to a plague of creepy-crawlies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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