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Word question
Apr 26, 2013 18:15
What's the word for being afraid of walking? more specifically, of someone else's walk.
ie, if watching Poirot cross the street fills you with terror.
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pygmymuse
April 26 2013, 22:56:02 UTC
Well... What came to me was trepidation... aka "when he saw Poirot crossing the street, trepidation seized him."
Or you might mean dread?
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prochytes
April 27 2013, 11:03:40 UTC
Fear of walking in general is called "basiphobia". The specific fear of someone else's walk has no name that I know.
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Or you might mean dread?
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