Definition of "phonophobia" []

• An unusual fear of sounds, especially of one's own voice (noun)

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• "Melissa,Thats not weird... well, maybe it is, but I have terrible phonophobia, too."
• "Generally speaking, they regarded it as an anxiety neurosis—a “phonophobia” or fear of speech as one therapist put it in 1830; and this pre-Freudian view of the problem would, in fact, prove more pertinent than what psychoanalysis expounded in its wake."
• "These include a large category of fears called phobias -- claustrophobia, agoraphobia, photophobia, altaphobia, phonophobia, etc."