Bathophobia vs Bathmophobia - What's the difference?
bathophobia | bathmophobia |
The fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves.
The fear of depths
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The fear of stairs and slopes.
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As nouns the difference between bathophobia and bathmophobia
is that bathophobia is the fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves while bathmophobia is the fear of stairs and slopes.bathophobia
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Noun
(-)Antonyms
* altophobiaSee also
* phobiabathmophobia
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Noun
(wikipedia bathmophobia) (-)page 16:
- It is closely related to bathmophobia , which is a fear of stairs or steep slopes, and climacophobia, which is a fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling down stairs.
Mother once forced to go down shopping centre steps on her BOTTOM finally overcomes fear of stairs after 38 years", Daily Mail , 10 November 2011:
- Bathmophobia , as with other clinical fears, is generally not diagnosed in children unless it persists for more than six months.
page 180:
- For visitors falling ill or who are prone to acrophobia (fear of heights) or bathmophobia (fear of stairs), restoration workers installed a tiny emergency elevator to enable Park Service rangers to ascend quickly all the way to Liberty's neck and then spirit people out.