Meaning of chronomentrophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

The fear of timepieces.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“I have⟳ chronomentrophobia, and believe⟳ me, having a director who understands that helps me a lot on the set⟳ because we don’t have⟳ a buncha A.D.’s running around yelling about the damn schedule⟳.[…]“Okay, look⟳. In ten minutes it’s time for my next meal and neural blessing. We’re on a tight clock, so we better get⟳ going.” Shane thought it was a strange remark⟳ for a man with chronomentrophobia.[…]“Chronomentrophobia?” Shane snorted. / “Fear of clocks,” Nicky answered. / “He actually gets away with shit like⟳ that?” Shane was appalled.[…]It was that kind of funny. But the room roared with laughter. Most of them probably hadn’t dealt recently with Michael’s chronomentrophobia—a comedy-killing ailment.”

“A:[…]Strain⟳ his brain as he might, Lawyer Ron [Petrie] cannot think⟳ of any medical conditions peculiar or unique to Saskatchewan, other than, of course, acrophobia, barophobia and chronomentrophobia. / Q: Yes, exactly, the actual medical terms for the irrational fears of, respectively, heights, gravity and clocks. And that’s not to mention⟳ the complex mental ailments, the extremes of euphoria and anxiety, that are consequential to investing way more emotion than is strictly speaking healthy into a football team.”

“The woman who visited more than a decade ago may have⟳ suffered from chronomentrophobia, a condition obviously not shared by [Allan] Symons, although his fascination with clocks is as much a mystery — even to him — as others’ irrational fear of them.”

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