Home › Words › G › globophobiaglobophobiaglobophobia means fear or dislike of globalization.EtymologyFrom Latin globus (“sphere”) + -o- + -phobia, equivalent to globe + -o- + -phobia.nounFear or dislike of globalization.e.g.“Although some have dismissed such fears as “globophobia”, globalization has come under greater critical public scrutiny.” — 2003, Albrecht Schnabel, Jan Aart Scholte, Civil Society and Global Finance, →ISBN, page 252:Extreme fear of balloons.e.g.“But globophobia (fear of balloons), lutraphobia (fear of otters) and octophobia (fear of the figure eight), are a little harder to understand.” — 2008 October 1, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).