hydrophobia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the disease of rabies itself.

   “[…] Cato, who ſcorned both death and fortune, could not abide the ſight of a looking glaſſe or of water; overcome with horrour, and quelled with amazement, if by the contagion of a mad dog he had falne into that ſickneſſe which Phiſitians call Hydroforbia, or feare of waters.”

2. isim A morbid fear of water; aquaphobia.
3. isim A lack of affinity for water; the quality of being hydrophobic