chronomentrophobia

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The fear of timepieces. rare,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

chronometrophobia alternative

词源

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) and, in the rarer form without the n (chronometrophobia), μέτρον (métron, “measure”) (compare English chronometer (“device for measuring time”)), whereas in this form claimed in phobia lists to be from Latin -mentum (“means of, instrument, medium”), which, however, does not explain the r, thus likely originated as a misspelling; + -phobia.
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