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Meaning of "pyrophobia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PYROPHOBIA

pyrophobia  [ˌpaɪrəʊˈfəʊbɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PYROPHOBIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pyrophobia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PYROPHOBIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pyrophobia in the English dictionary

The definition of pyrophobia in the dictionary is the fear of fire.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PYROPHOBIA


acrophobia
ˌækrəˈfəʊbɪə
aerophobia
ˌɛərəˈfəʊbɪə
agoraphobia
ˌæɡərəˈfəʊbɪə
arachnophobia
əˌræknəˈfəʊbɪə
claustrophobia
ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪə
emetophobia
ɪˌmetəˈfəʊbɪə
homophobia
ˌhəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
hydrophobia
ˌhaɪdrəˈfəʊbɪə
Islamophobia
ˌɪzlɑːməˈfəʊbɪə
monophobia
ˌmɒnəʊˈfəʊbɪə
neophobia
ˌniːəʊˈfəʊbɪə
nomophobia
ˌnəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
nyctophobia
ˌnɪktəʊˈfəʊbɪə
phobia
ˈfəʊbɪə
phonophobia
ˌfəʊnəʊˈfəʊbɪə
photophobia
ˌfəʊtəʊˈfəʊbɪə
scopophobia
ˌskɒpəˈfəʊbɪə
technophobia
ˌtɛknəʊˈfəʊbɪə
triskaidekaphobia
ˌtrɪskaɪˌdɛkəˈfəʊbɪə
xenophobia
ˌzɛnəˈfəʊbɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PYROPHOBIA

pyrometer
pyrometric
pyrometrical
pyrometrically
pyrometry
pyromorphite
pyrone
pyronine
pyroninophilic
pyrope
pyrophobic
pyrophone
pyrophoric
pyrophorous
pyrophorus
pyrophosphate
pyrophosphoric acid
pyrophotometer
pyrophotometry
pyrophyllite

WORDS THAT END LIKE PYROPHOBIA

aichmophobia
ailurophobia
algophobia
anglophobia
anthropophobia
aquaphobia
astraphobia
astrophobia
autophobia
gynophobia
mysophobia
necrophobia
ornithophobia
panophobia
Russophobia
school phobia
sitophobia
social phobia
thanatophobia
Zenobia
zoophobia

Synonyms and antonyms of pyrophobia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pyrophobia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PYROPHOBIA

Find out the translation of pyrophobia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pyrophobia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pyrophobia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pyrophobia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pirofobia
570 millions of speakers

English

pyrophobia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pyrophobia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رهاب النار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pyrophobia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pirofobia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pyrophobia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pyrophobia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pirophobia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pyrophobia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pyrophobia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pyrophobia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pyrophobia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pyrophobia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நெருப்பு கண்டு இயற்கை மீறிய பேரச்சம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिओरोफोबिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ateşten korkma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pyrophobia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pyrophobia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pyrophobia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pyrophobia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pyrophobia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pyrophobia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pyrophobia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pyrophobia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pyrophobia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PYROPHOBIA»

The term «pyrophobia» is normally little used and occupies the 143.812 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PYROPHOBIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pyrophobia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pyrophobia» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pyrophobia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PYROPHOBIA»

Discover the use of pyrophobia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pyrophobia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Analogies for Critical Thinking: Grade 6
Phobia Fear of Phobia Fear of claustrophobia closed spaces pyrophobia fire astrophobia lightning ichthyophobia fish agoraphobia open spaces logophobia study brontophobia thunder dermatophobia skin entomophobia insects ...
Ruth Foster, 2011
2
Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know About 50 Famous ...
PyROPHOBIA. I. t is perfectly normal and healthy to be cautious around fire and to regard uncontrolled fires as something to fear and guard against. Our distant ancestors understood that fire could be both useful and dangerous, and a healthy  ...
Sara Latta, 2014
3
The Girl Who Doesn't Talk: Beyond Shy: A Journey Through ...
9. \Q/. R. Chapter. 2;. Pyrophobia. I was afraid of more than just people as a child. I was also afraid of fire. When I was very small, we rented an old white house in the country. My mother was in the kitchen, holding me on her hip while she ...
Susanna Klein, 2012
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The Synonym Finder
... necrophobia, hy drophobia; chromatophobia, chaetophobia or tricho- phobia or pogonophobia; astraphobia, brontophobia keraunophobia, pyrophobia, eosophobia, achluopho- bia; peniaphobia, tachophobia, triskaidekaphobia autophobia, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness ...
Pyrophobia, pathological fear of fire, also has deep psychological roots in the transition from BPM III to BPM IV. When we discussed the phenomenology of the perinatal matrices, we saw that individuals approaching the ego death typically ...
Stanislav Grof, 2000
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God in the Dark: Suffering and Desire in the Spiritual Life
Chapter. Threes. Pyrophobia: In. Fear. of. the. Flame. Is it not the case that, in some sense, a life devoid of passion, like a life devoid of reflection, is a life not worth living? —Elizabeth A. Dreyer, Passionate Spirituality: Hildegard ofBingen and ...
Susan Pitchford, 2011
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Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice
... or dark places) Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) Phonophobia (fear of loud noises) Photophobia (fear of light) Pyrophobia (fear of fire) Topophobia (stage fright) Xenophobia (fear of strangers) Zoophobia (fear of animal or animals) begins with ...
Mary Ann Boyd, 2008
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A. J. Tomlinson : Plainfolk Modernist: Plainfolk Modernist
Irwin's pamphlet, “Pyrophobia (A Morbid Dread of Fire)” was advertised in the Way of Faith (October 20, 1897). See also B. H. Irwin, “Pyrophobia,” Way of Faith (October 28, 1896): 2, quoted in Fankhauser, “The Heritage of Faith,” 128. Fuller is ...
R. G. Robins Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Marymount College, 2004
9
The Devil's Pulpit
Moreover, The bite of a mad dog, we all know, is a very frightful thing; but God knows that the bite of a mad parson is the worse bite of the two : in the one case you die of hydrophobia, or dread of water ; in the other you die of. pyrophobia, ...
Robert Taylor, 1996
10
A Square of Daffodils, Capitalism, and Why Children Don't ...
The event that caused pyrophobia I was a typical two-year-old with lots of energy, and these were Depression times, so one of the only forms of entertainment for my parents was to go to friends' homes to play cards. One evening while they ...
Harold L. Doerr, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PYROPHOBIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pyrophobia is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Practical Solution: Run Police Departments Like Fire Departments
For the 99% of the population not suffering from pyrophobia or a similar neurosis, the answer to that question is "no," even though firefighters aren't patrolling the ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Could you smell a rat?
This is probably because I suffer from pyrophobia (an abnormal fear of fire) any detection of a burning odour is followed by my frantic check of every room to ... «Health24, Jul 15»
3
Top Ten Phobias
Pyrophobia: unlike a pyromaniac, a pyrophobic person is irrationally afraid of fire. This phobia really highlights the idea that a true phobia is fear only beyond the ... «HeartZine, Jul 15»
4
Nana Patekar was critically injured during the shooting of Parinda …
Nana was critically injured and was in hospital for almost two months. It took almost a year for his injuries to heal and Nana returned to the sets with pyrophobia, ... «Times of India, Apr 15»
5
Whimsy and Worship: the Eccentric Piero di Cosimo at the National …
He wrote that Piero suffered from such bad pyrophobia that he subsisted solely on eggs that he boiled (fifty at a time) with the glue he worked with. According to ... «Georgetowner, Feb 15»
6
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Review (PC)
If you burn him to death, he might come back with a scorched face and a secret case of pyrophobia. These orcs are all randomly generated, from name to ... «Arcade Sushi, Oct 14»
7
Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode 7 Review – Mockingbird
... him with the bite wound he received after he reveals the truth of how his brother caused him the facial scars and gave him the pyrophobia he still has today. «International Business Times UK, May 14»
8
Strangest items packed in a holiday suitcase!
A fire extinguisher - a man from Derby with extreme pyrophobia always packed one in the event of emergency from force of habit as well as for peace of mind. «FemaleFirst.co.uk, Apr 14»
9
The Rockstar Ramblings: Guns N' Roses 3D
If you have a phobia of fire (pyrophobia) stay away from this movie because THE FIRE IS IN 3D! Overselling 101: "If you see one concert film in your lifetime this ... «Metal Underground, Apr 13»
10
BORDERLANDS 2 | *Hammer Buster* Legendary Weapons Guide
BORDERLANDS 2 | *Pyrophobia* Legendary Weapons Guide - Duration: 5:03. by yoteslaya 294,600 views. 5:03. BORDERLANDS 2 | *Longbow* Legendary ... «YouTube, Dec 12»

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« EDUCALINGO. Pyrophobia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pyrophobia>. Apr 2024 ».
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