Aphephobia
noun
a fear of being touched; also called haphephobia , haptephobia , thixophobia
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Word Origin
Greek haphe ‘touch’
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- Apheresis
Also, aphaeresis. the loss or omission of one or more letters or sounds at the beginning of a word, as in squire for esquire, or count for account. Medicine/Medical. the withdrawal of whole blood from the body, separation of one or more components, and return by transfusion of remaining blood to the donor. noun the […]
- Aphesis
the disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable, as in the formation of the word slant from aslant. Historical Examples aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in ‘baccy and ‘later. The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of […]
- Aphetic
pertaining to or due to . Historical Examples The tender of a ship or of a locomotive is the attender, and taint is aphetic for attaint, Fr. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Ernest Weekley For limner we find in the 15th century lumner and luminour, which is aphetic for alluminour, or enlumineur. The Romance […]
- Aphet.
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- Aphid
any of numerous tiny soft-bodied insects of the family Aphididae of worldwide distribution, that suck the sap from the stems and leaves of various plants, some developing wings when overcrowding occurs: an important pest of many fruit trees and vegetable crops. Historical Examples I once observed a young spider approaching an aphid, which was facing […]