English

Noun

bathophobia ‎(uncountable)

1. The fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves.
2. The fear of depths
   • 2004, Michael A. Gibbs, A Fairy of Anneliese Glade, ISBN 1 58939 598 0:

     "You're afraid of the dark. That's nyctophobia. And you're afraid of deep places, or depth. That's bathophobia."

Antonyms

• altophobia

See also

• phobia