Citations:aphobia

English citations of aphobia

• 2018, M Szuba, We're Here, We're Queer… Or Are We? Queerness, Asexuality, and Communicative Capitalism on Tumblr:

  Users might put terms they do not like in quotation marks to mock and illegitimize them, for example saying “'aphobe'” to suggest that aphobia does not exist.

fearlessness, lack of fear (from a- +‎ -phobia)

• 1898 August, Chas. J. Proben, “New York Letter”, in Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 15, number 7, page 457:

  Similar ones occurring daily in a large metropolis like ours, where aphobia for operations walks extant and can be easily acquired.

• 2013 September 10, Dan Simmons, Darwin's Blade, Mulholland Books, →ISBN:

  They even taught of parts of the body that were phobosynakteres—places where fear accumulated—and trained their young men, their warriors, to be able to put their minds and bodies in a state of aphobia.” “Fearlessness,” translated Syd.

• 2013 October 28, Aage Borchgrevink, A Norwegian Tragedy: Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya, Polity, →ISBN, page 219:

  Some people have argued that there is an opposite reaction to dangerous situations, known as battle trance or aphobia (fearlessness), in which people such as soldiers in combat stop feeling fear and act without regard for themselves.