Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Morbid dislike or dread of sounds.
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- noun An unusual
fear ofsounds , especially of one's ownvoice
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- noun a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice
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Examples
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Melissa,Thats not weird... well, maybe it is, but I have terrible phonophobia, too.
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Generally speaking, they regarded it as an anxiety neurosis—a “phonophobia” or fear of speech as one therapist put it in 1830; and this pre-Freudian view of the problem would, in fact, prove more pertinent than what psychoanalysis expounded in its wake.
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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Generally speaking, they regarded it as an anxiety neurosis—a “phonophobia” or fear of speech as one therapist put it in 1830; and this pre-Freudian view of the problem would, in fact, prove more pertinent than what psychoanalysis expounded in its wake.
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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These include a large category of fears called phobias -- claustrophobia, agoraphobia, photophobia, altaphobia, phonophobia, etc.
The Conquest of Fear Basil King 1893
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It also reduces any associated nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light or sound (photophobia or phonophobia).
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While aspirin alone reduced some of the associated symptoms of nausea, vomiting, photophobia and phonophobia, aspirin plus metoclopramide was particularly good a reducing nausea and vomiting, though it produced no greater frequency of pain relief.
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Symptoms of migraine include moderate to severe headache pain, nausea and vomiting, photophobia, and phonophobia.
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The primary efficacy endpoints are pain relief and freedom from nausea, photophobia and phonophobia as measured at two hours after dosing.
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In addition, after one or more doses of Sumatriptan OS, the percentage of patients who were asymptomatic was significantly increased, and the percentages who experienced nausea, photophobia, or phonophobia were significantly decreased.
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Associated symptoms (nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and phonophobia) were also recorded immediately before dosing and at 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes post-dosing.
qms commented on the word phonophobia
The news makes me feel like old Job.
It bruise some cranial lobe.
I crave only quiet;
I cannot deny it,
I’m now a confirmed phonophobe.
September 28, 2018