pantaphobia

English

Etymology 1

Literally "all-unfearful", from pant- (“all”) +‎ a- (“not”) +‎ -phobia.

Noun

pantaphobia (uncountable)

1. A total absence of fear; fearlessness.

Etymology 2

From panta- +‎ phobia.

Noun

pantaphobia (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of pantophobia (“the fear of everything”).
   • 1880, George M. Beard, “II. Symptoms of Nervous Exhaustion”, in A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia): Its Symptoms, Nature, Sequences, Treatment, Second and revised edition, New York: William Wood & Company, page 36:

     There is a manifestation of morbid fear which is not uncommon, and to which we might perhaps give the term pantaphobia, or fear of everything; all responsibility, every attempt to make a change of movement being the result of dread and alarm.

   • 1891 January, Eugenio Tanzi, “The Germs of Delirium”, in The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 12, number 1, St. Louis: Ev. E. Carreras, page 77:

     Not only the intercurrent episodes, but even sleeplessness, pantaphobia, vanity, a strange mingling of the somatic symptoms of the psycho-neuroses, with the psychical phenomena of paranoia, color this picture with such liveliness that the opinion expressed by this celebrated ethnographer, that “savages resemble the melancholic and nervous types,” appears most appropriate.

   • 1925 January, Tom A. Williams, “The Mechanism of the Psychoneuroses”, in The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 81, number 3, →DOI, page 432:

     Even the attribution of psychopathic constitution is often too loosely made; as for instance in the case of chronic pantaphobia which I presented some years ago before this Association. In spite of a heavily charged heredity this man remained free of psychopathy and fear after twelve years of the most strenuous life.

   • 1945 June 16, “The Box Office Slant: Bedside Manner”, in Showmen's Trade Review, volume 42, number 22, New York, N. Y.: Showmen's Trade Review, Inc., page 10:

     In the meantime the doctor makes arrangements with a young test pilot, who has romantic leanings towards the young lady, to help him keep her there. This is done by means of a fake case of pantaphobia.

Further reading

• “pantaphobia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.