sonophobia

English

Etymology

From sono- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

sonophobia (uncountable)

  1. An unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).
    • 2013, David Brian Arciniegas, Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 403, →ISBN:
      Patients with this condition often develop so-called sonophobia marked by fears of and/or aversions to sounds that individuals with normal hearing tolerate easily and find innocuous.
    • 1999, Bernard Swerdlow, Whiplash and Related Headaches, Boca Raton: CRC-Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 595, →ISBN:
      There is no aura, there is some photophobia, sonophobia, and he goes to bed if possible.
    • 2019 September 19, Steven D. Waldman, Atlas of Uncommon Pain Syndromes E-Book, Amsterdam: Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11, →ISBN:
      Like migraine headache, hemicrania continua is associated with nausea and vomiting, as well as sonophobia and phonophobia.

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