Citations:barophobia
English citations of barophobia
the fear of gravity or objects falling edit
- 1955 September 1, Hal Boyle, “Subjects For Worry Dwindle; Helpful Writer Offers Others”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 197, number 31,813, Sacramento, Calif., page 15:
- If you can’t worry about anything else, you can at least succumb to barophobia, the fear of gravity (you can always fall back on gravity) or cherophobia.
- 1982 May 5, Mike Kelley, “We all have a lot to fear”, in Austin American-Statesman, volume 111, number 284, Austin, Tex., page B1, column 1:
- If you do not have barophobia, the fear of gravity, you have never worked as a waiter. You carry six cups of blazing-hot coffee to a table where a bunch of city commissioners and the most influential farmer in the county are sitting and try to get those cups on the table instead of into the respective laps of the aforementioned and you will develop a healthy, reasonable fear of gravity.
- 2004, Corinne Pyle, Funky Phobias[1], →ISBN, page 8:
- Suddenly, the box of candy bars he is selling for band falls out of his locker right onto your head. You don't even notice the pain. All you feel is fear. You have barophobia. No, it's not a fear of candy bars. It's a fear of what made the candy bars fall—gravity.
- 2007 September 20, “What’s up Doc?”, in Leader-Post, Regina, Sask., page A3, column 5:
- A: […] Strain his brain as he might, Lawyer Ron [Petrie] cannot think of any medical conditions peculiar or unique to Saskatchewan, other than, of course, acrophobia, barophobia and chronomentrophobia. / Q: Yes, exactly, the actual medical terms for the irrational fears of, respectively, heights, gravity and clocks. And that’s not to mention the complex mental ailments, the extremes of euphoria and anxiety, that are consequential to investing way more emotion than is strictly speaking healthy into a football team.
- 2011, I. H. Smythe, Stories for Animals[2], →ISBN, page 4:
- But other phobias are not silly at all; they are extremely serious and debilitating and can lead only to a life of dejection and misery. For example, it's a terrible thing if a person is afraid of gravity (barophobia), and can only truly be happy floating about in a pod in deep space.