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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase”) + New Latin -phobia, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Noun
climacophobia (uncountable)
- The fear of staircases or of falling down stairs.
2001 August 16, Leigh Butler, “TAN: Phobias (was Re: TAN: Summer Reading recommendations)”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):I myself have recently developed mild climacophobia (fear of falling downstairs). Don't know why, but I'm convinced that someday I'll fall down a flight of stairs and hurt myself badly.
2004, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, “Phobos”, in Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 103:I once knew a tall kyphophobic man,
Who was sick of stooping so low;
Sadly he developed climacophobia,
When he moved from his bungalow.
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