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thalassophobia

[thə‚las·ə′fō·bē·ə]
(psychology)
An abnormal fear of the sea.
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(29) Acknowledging that his fear of sea traveling and sea-sickness prevented him from embarking in such a meritorious enterprise (2.15) after speaking so eloquently about the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Petrarch lamely concludes that his thalassophobia was a natural impulse ("frenum") to refrain from succumbing to vain distractions ("Hoc forsan animo vago et rerum novarum inexplebili oculo frenum posuit natura," 2.18).
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He speaks of "an increasingly obsessive thalassophobia among the caste Hindus" in the early medieval period (p.
Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, vol. 1: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam: 7th-11th Centuries
(23) Acknowledging that his fear of sea traveling and sea-sickness prevented him from embarking in such a meritorious enterprise (2.15) after speaking so eloquently about the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Petrarch lamely concludes that his thalassophobia is a natural impulse ("frenum") to refrain from succumbing to vain distractions ("Hoc forsan animo vago et rerum novarum inexplebili oculo frenum posuit natura," 2.18).
The quest for truth: towards a taxonomy of hodoeporics (1)
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