snakephobia

Etymology

From snake + -phobia.

snakephobia means fear of snakes. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

Fear of snakes.“His mother “never could abide” the serpent; its Freischutzian tones were unearthly in the old lady’s ears, and seemed to fret her bowels into fiddle strings, and positively turn her inside out, as the old lady declared just before her death, which occurrence was doubtless hastened by the violence of her snakephobia.”