acrophobia.

An intense fear of heights.

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Words that belong together

• acrophobia at the lookout
• suffer from acrophobia
• confront acrophobia

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His acrophobia kept him well away from the balcony rail.

The glass lift exposed a height that triggered her acrophobia.

She explained that acrophobia, not a spinning sensation, was the difficulty.

Usage notes

Primary category: fear. Forms: Usually a mass noun. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.