acrophobe

English

Etymology

From acro- +‎ -phobe.

Pronunciation

Noun

acrophobe (plural acrophobes)

  1. A person who suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights.
    • 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
      Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.
    • 2016 February 11, David W. Dunlap, “John Tishman, an Acrophobe Who Took the Manhattan Skyline to New Heights”, in The New York Times‎[2], archived from the original on 29 November 2020:
      Paradoxes abounded in Mr. Tishman’s life. A self-described acrophobe who shied away from the precipices of the skyscrapers he was constructing, he loved piloting his own airplanes.
    • 2017 January 9, Jordan Rane, “Did you love ‘La La Land’? This L.A. trip is for you”, in CNN‎[3], archived from the original on 11 July 2025:
      Mia and Sebastian take a romantic stroll on an elegant, curvy concrete bridge that love-struck acrophobes wouldn’t be caught dead on.
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