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atomophobia en · NOUN

Etymology

From atom + -o- + -phobia.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of atomphobia.
    alt of atomphobia
    • The global community, and the political and social leaders of the countries of different orientations, must develop a sort of ‘atomophobia,’ a psychological aversion to nuclear weapons, their possession, their use or the threat of it, in warfare or as an instrument of policy. 1993, Alexander K. Kislov, “Political Aspects of Minimizing the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War” (chapter 14), in Håkan Wiberg, Ib Damgaard Petersen, Paul Smoker, editors, Inadvertent Nuclear War: The Implications of the Changing Global Order, Oxford: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 240: