Pronounced: proh-pih-DUE-tit, noun
Notes: I think I see bits of other words in here (Sorry this was late in getting posted-RL).
Yesterday’s word
The word pathophobia is “fear of disease”
Background / Comments
It’s Greek all the way: patho- (suffering, disease) with -phobia (fear). I figured this one out because I knew pathology (the study of diseases).
First used
This word first showed up in the late middle 1800s
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