Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Morbid fear of being near the edge of a cliff or precipice.
Examples
“According to analysts, the sector is beset by "continuing cremnophobia" or an abnormal fear of precipices.”
ARM’s ascent continues apace as FTSE falters - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cremnophobia’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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s@tifur's
contumacious, obdurate, ply, peremptory, flout, countenance, coy, polemic, welter, cremnophobia, pertness, effrontery and 55 more...
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Blood Matters?
legerdemain, eidolon, soucouyant, grawlix, foin, thanatism, chichevache, uloid, vellicate, victimate, bildungsroman, lambent and 64 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cremnophobia.
jmjarmstrong JM is on the edge of overcoming his cremnophobia. Jan 9, 2010
grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009
stevedebrun I would have to agree with dontcry - seems like common sense, or self-preservation to me. Oct 28, 2009
dontcry I don't think that being afraid of being on the edge of a cliff qualifies as a phobia. No siree. Oct 27, 2009