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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὄχλος (ókhlos, “crowd”) + -phobist.
Noun
ochlophobist (plural ochlophobists)
- (obsolete, rare) A person with a phobia, or fear, of mob-like crowds, as opposed to simply open spaces like agoraphobia or large crowds as with enochlophobia.
1867 July–December, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 102, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, page 42:The Easter Trip of Two Ochlophobists.
1882 December 5, The Academy and Literature, quotee, Daily News, London:"The ochlophobist has but a hard time in London just now," remarked the Daily News on December 5, 1882, and we have known subsequent occasions when we would have thanked the Daily News for that word.
2003 May 7, Alan Wall, “Section 26”, in The School of Night: A Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 223:I had long before become an ochlophobist. A detester of crowds.