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Meaning of siderodromofobia




furoya

siderodromofobia
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It is the fear of trains, of traveling on them, of their formations, of seeing them pass, . . . This is one of the cases in which the effort of doctors and linguists to adjust an impossible etymology (unlike others such as consecotaleophobia, hypopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, nomophobia, contreltophobia, transphobic where they put anything) is valued. We all know that phobias have names of Greek origin, and that in ancient Helade there was no railway, so when mentioning this pathology the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud called it in German esenbahnangst, for eisenbahn ("railway") angst ("fear"), until someone had an inspiration and translated into Greek each of its components. Thus it was as 963; 953; 948; 951; 961; 959; 962; ( sideros ), which surely Greek took from some other language for "iron, iron", 948; 961; 959; 956; 959; 962; (dromos) for "track, lane, running path", and 966; 959; 946; 959; 962; (fovos) which is "fear, fear". See philately.

  



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