nephophobia

English

Etymology

nepho- +‎ -phobia

Noun

nephophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of clouds.
    • 2004, Peter Rushforth, Pinkerton's Sister, →ISBN, page 410:
      Another "ia" was evolving here, she felt, to send Mrs. Goodchild scuttling delightedly: nephophobia, a terror of clouds.
    • 2011 July, Mark McCourt, “Curing Nephophobia”, in SECURITY, page 10:
      Lions, Tigers and Clouds….Oh My...Is it possible, you wonder, that I have Nephophobia?
    • 2014 Augsut, Jill S. M. Coleman, Kaylee D. Newby, Karen D. Multon, Cynthia L. Taylor, “Weathering the Storm: Revisiting Severe-Weather Phobia”, in BAMS, page 1179:
      Natural environment phobias include weather-related conditions such as fear of thunderstorms (astrophobia), clouds (nephophobia), hurricanes (lilapsophobia), snow (chionophobia), cold (cryophobia), wind (ancraophobia), and rain (ombrophobia), among others.
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