Not to be confused with Hydrophobia or Thalassophobia.
Medical condition
Aquaphobia
Specialty
Psychology
Symptoms
Aversion to water
Aquaphobia (from Latin aqua 'water', and Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is an irrational fear of water.[1]
Aquaphobia is considered a specific phobia of natural environment type in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.[2] A specific phobia is an intense fear of something that poses little or no actual danger.[3]
^Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. Elsevier. 2011. p. 122.
^Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5-TR. Michael B. First, American Psychiatric Association (Fifth edition, text revision ed.). Washington, DC. 2022. pp. 224–229. ISBN 978-0-89042-575-6. OCLC 1288423302.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^"Anxiety disorders". Office on Women's Health. US Department of Health and Human Services. Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2019. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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