cosmophobia
English
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editcosmophobia (uncountable)
- The fear or dread of outer space.
- 1971, Rumanian review: Volume 25:
- The cosmophobia is only a symptom. It is not we who fly into outer space; it is outer space that should come down to the earth.
- 2012, Brian Aldiss, The Dark Light Years:
- As well as having an exploratory function, these flights were calculated to relieve cosmophobia.