dodecaphobia
English
editEtymology
editFrom dodeca- (“twelve”) + -phobia.
Noun
editdodecaphobia (uncountable)
- Fear of the number 12.
- 2017, Doug Lowe, Java All-in-One, 5th edition:
- Suppose that you wanted to make a random-number [generator] that returns [all] random numbers between 1 and 20 [but] 12 (because you have […] dodecaphobia which […] is the fear of the number 12).
- 2019 June, “Five phobias you didn’t know existed”, in BBC Bitesize[1]:
- There’s also dodecaphobia, which is the (again, unofficial) fear of the number 12[.]
- 2022, Hana Tooke, The Midnighters:
- Dagmara read the next title. “‘Dodecaphobia’?”
“There is something very troubling about the number 12,” Ema said gravely.
Trivia
edit- There are 12 letters in dodecaphobia.