Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Morbid dislike or dread of sounds.

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  • noun An unusual fear of sounds, especially of one's own voice

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  • noun a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice

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Examples

  • Melissa,Thats not weird... well, maybe it is, but I have terrible phonophobia, too.

    "lovely, clever, labor-intensive" - A Dress A Day 2009

  • Generally speaking, they regarded it as an anxiety neurosis—a “phonophobia” or fear of speech as one therapist put it in 1830; and this pre-Freudian view of the problem would, in fact, prove more pertinent than what psychoanalysis expounded in its wake.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Generally speaking, they regarded it as an anxiety neurosis—a “phonophobia” or fear of speech as one therapist put it in 1830; and this pre-Freudian view of the problem would, in fact, prove more pertinent than what psychoanalysis expounded in its wake.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • These include a large category of fears called phobias -- claustrophobia, agoraphobia, photophobia, altaphobia, phonophobia, etc.

    The Conquest of Fear Basil King 1893

  • It also reduces any associated nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light or sound (photophobia or phonophobia).

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • While aspirin alone reduced some of the associated symptoms of nausea, vomiting, photophobia and phonophobia, aspirin plus metoclopramide was particularly good a reducing nausea and vomiting, though it produced no greater frequency of pain relief.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • Symptoms of migraine include moderate to severe headache pain, nausea and vomiting, photophobia, and phonophobia.

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  • The primary efficacy endpoints are pain relief and freedom from nausea, photophobia and phonophobia as measured at two hours after dosing.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • In addition, after one or more doses of Sumatriptan OS, the percentage of patients who were asymptomatic was significantly increased, and the percentages who experienced nausea, photophobia, or phonophobia were significantly decreased.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2008

  • Associated symptoms (nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and phonophobia) were also recorded immediately before dosing and at 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes post-dosing.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2008

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  • The news makes me feel like old Job.

    It bruise some cranial lobe.

    I crave only quiet;

    I cannot deny it,

    I’m now a confirmed phonophobe.

    September 28, 2018