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Acrophobia vs Aurophobia - What's the difference?

acrophobia | aurophobia |

As nouns the difference between acrophobia and aurophobia

is that acrophobia is fear of heights while aurophobia is the fear of gold; by extension, the fear of wealth.

acrophobia

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Fear of heights.

    • Synonyms

    * altophobia

    Antonyms

    * bathophobia

    See also

    * batophobia

    aurophobia

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The fear of gold; by extension, the fear of wealth.
  • * 1898 , Western Druggist , Volume 20, page 258:
    • If this be true, it certainly shows the power of suggestion, idiosyncrasy or aurophobia to an extent scarcely equaled by Mr. Bryan himself, who was said to be sorely distressed a short time ago on account of finding gold in his well.
  • * 1961 , Morris Goldstein, Lift Up Your Life: A Personal Philosophy for Our Times , Philosophical Library (1961), page 87:
    • Slaves are we then to a superstition — aurophobia — for there is never enough; fear of insecurity will not be remedied by any amount, whether counted in hundreds of thousands or millions.
  • * 1972 , Paul Einzig, A Textbook on Monetary Policy , Macmillan (1972), page 223:
    • The other main reason for the aurophobia that prevails in many quarters is that the monetary use of gold implies fixed parities,
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