siderodromophobia
Aug. 26th, 2013 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordsiderodromophobia (si-de-roh-droh-moh-FOH-bee-uh) - n., an abnormal fear of train travel.
Or, possibly, of trains themselves, or even the rails. Like most phobias, a coinage from Greek roots: sideros, iron + dromo, running + phobos, fear -- fear of the iron-runner. As good a coinage as any, given the ancient Greeks didn't have trains (and so missed out on train station culture).
---L.
Or, possibly, of trains themselves, or even the rails. Like most phobias, a coinage from Greek roots: sideros, iron + dromo, running + phobos, fear -- fear of the iron-runner. As good a coinage as any, given the ancient Greeks didn't have trains (and so missed out on train station culture).
---L.
