emetophobia
/ɪˌmɛtəˈfəʊbɪə
/noun [mass noun]
Extreme fear of vomiting: she first remembers experiencing emetophobia at boarding school at the age of six...
- Obviously, I have issues with food related to the emetophobia.
- Learning to relinquish control is key in overcoming emetophobia, according to Dr Veale.
- Despite suffering with emetophobia for nearly 75 years, last year she finally tackled her fear with the support of a therapist.
Derivatives
emetophobic
- He sounds exactly like me before I was diagnosed with it (though I never drank because I'm severely emetophobic).
- Mine started out as a sore throat and ended with a stomach virus and for an emetophobic like me, that was no fun experience.
- We report a case of emetophobic child whose fear of vomiting started after an attack of acute appendicitis.
Origin
1970s: from Greek emetikos 'vomiting', from emein 'to vomit' + -phobia.