taphephobia

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Basements don't get enough natural light, and since we clearly have latent taphephobia (fear of being buried alive), we need a finished basement we'd want to sleep in.

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  • Basements don't get enough natural light, and since we clearly have latent taphephobia (fear of being buried alive), we need a finished basement we'd want to sleep in. —  Readthehook.com - Current Articles
  • • Freud de Melo, 73, operates a quirky tourist park in central Brazil that features stone models of Noah's Ark and other sculptures, but he also notoriously suffers from taphephobia, the fear of being buried alive, and one of his sculptures is his own elaborate, fear-assuaging crypt. —  Artvoice - Buffalo's #1 Newsweekly
  • When times get bad and the market is sinking, many of them seem to suffer from taphephobia -- a fear of getting buried alive -- and they want to run for the hills as quickly as possible. —  Fool.com: The Motley Fool
 

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  1. New Latin, irreg. from Greek ταφή, burial, + φαβια, from φοβεῑ fear.
 

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