ochlophobia
(ɒklɒˈfəʊbɪə)
[f. Gr. ὄχλο-ς crowd + -phobia: see ochlophobist.]
A morbid aversion to crowds. Hence ochloˈphobic a.
| 1894 Gould Dict. Med. 884/2 Ochlophobia. 1929 C. Connolly Let. Nov. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 330, I have had ochlophobia lately. 1976 R. Perry One Good Death x. 157 [He] preferred to work in greater privacy. It could even be that he was ochlophobic like Toller, the Austrian killer. |