Citations:eosophobia

English citations of eosophobia

fear of dawn or daylight

• 1960 February 23, Hal Boyle, “You Too Can Be Expert On Taphephobia, Kenophobia”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 206, number 33,271, Sacramento, Calif., page B3:

  Do you hate to get up in the morning? That’s a sign of eosophobia, fear of the dawn, and phengophobia, fear of daylight.

• 1987, Barbara Vine [Ruth Rendell], A Fatal Inversion, Viking, page 174:

  They had lain out there in the garden long into the small hours, everyone unwilling to go to bed, until a lightening appeared in the sky, a pale glow that gradually suffused it and Adam […] said in a vague remote voice: “I suffer from eosophobia.”
  “From what?”
  “An irrational fear of the dawn.”

• 1988 February 18, Ian Skidmore, “A bad rash of word phobia”, in North Wales Weekly News, page 41:

  Nor do I worry about Eosophobia, fear of Dawn. How can I be afraid of something I hardly ever see?

• 1990 July 21, David Grimes, “The only thing we have to fear”, in The Messenger, volume 73, number 125, Madisonville, Ky., page 5A:

  A lot of people don’t like getting up in the morning, but if you live in fear of the dawn, you’ve got eosophobia.

• 1992 June 30, Art Snyder, “Just Trivia”, in The Times Recorder, page 3-B:

  A vampire like Dracula might have eosophobia, or fear of what? a. dawn b. crosses c. mirrors

• 1997 October 16, Henry Miller, “Drop that flute, buster; you know I’ve got aulophobia”, in Statesman Journal, volume 146, number 203, page 1B:

  And let’s not forget the labor-saving (your labor) excuses that phobias such as ankylophobia, sheer dread of stiff joints; or eosophobia, fear of the dawn, can provide. “Gee, honey, I’d love to get out of this warm sleeping bag and build the campfire, but the old ankylophobia and eosophobia are acting up, so would you mind doing it for me?”

• [1999, Greg Hrbek, The Hindenburg crashes nightly, pages 300–301:

  “ […] Essentially, it looks at idealism as a limited natural resources, like oil or trees. You guys used it all up, leaving us with an eosophobic void.” […]
  “What's eosophobia?” I asked.
  “Fear of the new day.”]

• 2001 April 13, Kevin Williams, “So, what are you afraid of?”, in Democrat and Chronicle, page 6B:

  Yet, on the other hand, we could market our winter climate to those who suffer from thermophobia, heliophobia and eosophobia. These are the fears of warmth, sunshine and daylight.

• 2001 December 31, Cal Sisto, “Today’s Weather Authority Tip”, in The Southern Illinoisan, volume 109, number 365, page 7A:

  If you picked up this newspaper after sunrise then you probably don’t have eosophobia. Eosophobia is the fear of dawn or daylight.

• 2006 June 30, Steve Burgess, “Snakes—Why Does It Have To Be Snakes?”, in Swerve: Calgary Inside & Out (Calgary Herald), page twenty-five:

  Some phobias may be entirely hypothetical. Does anyone truly suffer from eosophobia, the fear of dawn?