taphephobia.

An intense fear of being buried alive.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• fear described as taphephobia
• a history of taphephobia

On the page

His taphephobia shaped the instructions he left for the funeral.

The memoir described taphephobia without presenting its imagined outcome as likely.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.