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prettygoodword) wrote2015-06-12 08:05 am
prettygoodword) wrote2015-06-12 08:05 am
ceraunophile
ceraunophile or keraunophile (ker-awn-oh-FAIL) - n., one who loves lightning and thunder.
Supposedly, though it shows up in remarkably few word lists, let alone dictionaries -- and the corresponding phobia is more commonly called astraphobia (brontophobia is for thunder specifically). But keraunos is indeed thunderbolt in Greek, and there is also ceraunomancy, divination by lightning, as well as a few other derivatives. So not definitively a real word, but indications are suggestive.
And that wraps up a week of lovers. Back next week with the regular mix.
---L.
Supposedly, though it shows up in remarkably few word lists, let alone dictionaries -- and the corresponding phobia is more commonly called astraphobia (brontophobia is for thunder specifically). But keraunos is indeed thunderbolt in Greek, and there is also ceraunomancy, divination by lightning, as well as a few other derivatives. So not definitively a real word, but indications are suggestive.
And that wraps up a week of lovers. Back next week with the regular mix.
---L.
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I came upon my ceraunophilia this way: My grandmother grew up afraid of thunder and lighting, and she decided she did not want her daughter to suffer the same way. So when my mom was a toddler and a thunderstorm approached, Grandma would take her to a window to ooh and aah at the lightning and thunder. It worked. My mom did the same to me, and I grew up thinking lighting and thunder was great. I did the same thing to a kitten. I wound up with a cat who would not come inside during a storm. A cat ceraunophile.
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---L.