Usually means: Fear of being buried alive.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. taphephobia: Merriam-Webster
  2. taphephobia: Collins English Dictionary
  3. taphephobia: Vocabulary.com
  4. taphephobia: Wordnik
  5. taphephobia: Wiktionary
  6. taphephobia: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. taphephobia: Dictionary.com
  8. taphephobia: Rhymezone
  9. taphephobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  10. taphephobia: FreeDictionary.org
  11. taphephobia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. taphephobia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. taphephobia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Taphephobia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. Taphephobia: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Taphephobia: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Taphephobia)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of taphophobia [a fear of being buried alive]

Similar:
taphophobia, aphephobia, toxiphobia, haemophobia, necrophobia, bathophobia, speluncaphobia, agliophobia, katagelophobia, tocophobia, more...

Opposite:
taphephilia, love of burial

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Similar:
taphophobia, aphephobia, toxiphobia, haemophobia, necrophobia, bathophobia, speluncaphobia, agliophobia, katagelophobia, tocophobia, more...

Opposite:
taphephilia, love of burial



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