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A morbid fear of great heights
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acrophobia
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n. fear of heights.
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Acrophobia (from the , ''ákron '', meaning "peak, summit, edge" and , phóbos , "fear") is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up. It belongs to a category of specific phobias , called space and ...
Usage examples of acrophobia.
Glen, his stomach churning, his groin tingling, managed to follow only a few steps before he realized the acrophobia was going to win.
Glen to hover precariously in midair, all the terrors of his acrophobia came flooding back.
There I was, having the worst attack of acrophobia in history, and then wham!
But he said nothing, determined that today the acrophobia would not get the better of him.
It was wider than an urban walkway, so she could easily have gone upright, but her acrophobia refused to allow her to let go with her hands.
Limpkin was finally beginning to rid himself of his acrophobia and began to stroll around the deck.
It was a position that gave, strangely, the sensations of both claustrophobia and acrophobia at the same time.
Rudy shivered, at once repelled and curiously attracted, a fear that was oddly like acrophobia coming over him.
With her first coherent thought, finding herself blanketed by tons of stony carbon, Maia realized that there were indeed worse things than acrophobia or seasickness.
Although it was far lower than treetops he would have assayed without trepidation, he felt a momentary pang of acrophobia.