Home › Words › S › sonophobiasonophobiasonophobia means an unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).EtymologyFrom sono- + -phobia.nounAn unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).e.g.“Patients with this condition often develop so-called sonophobia marked by fears of and/or aversions to sounds that individuals with normal hearing tolerate easily and find innocuous.” — 2013, David Brian Arciniegas, Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 403, →ISBN:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).