cryophobia

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cryophobia

an abnormal fear of ice or frost.

See also: Cold, Weather

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cryophobia - a morbid fear of freezing

simple phobia - any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli

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Natural environment phobias include weather-related conditions such as fear of thunderstorms (astrophobia), clouds (nephophobia), hurricanes (lilapsophobia), snow (chionophobia), cold (cryophobia), wind (ancraophobia), and rain (ombrophobia), among others.

Weathering the storm: revisiting severe-weather phobia

My cryophobia was thawed last week, however, by a captivating 15-year-old Russian figure skater.