"height-fear" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1934, Science News, volumes 25-26, page 235:",
          "text": "The reason for this height-fear on the part of \"Wingless\" was not at first understood.",
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          "ref": "1970, American Psychological Association, Proceedings - Part 2, page 533:",
          "text": "The 5s were also told that learning would transfer to other height-fear situations although the transfer might not be immediate.",
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          "ref": "2006, Karen Chamberlain, Desert of the Heart, page 122:",
          "text": "Talking and joking had ceased, and I sympathized with the uncertainty, the night-fear and height-fear I felt around me.",
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          "ref": "2012, Allan V. Horwitz, PhD, Jerome C. Wakefield, All We Have to Fear:",
          "text": "For example, while we have seen that height fear is universal, its extent varies substantially among individuals.",
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          "ref": "2013, W Stekel, Conditions Of Nervous Anxiety And Their Treatment:",
          "text": "From this point of view we shall more readily understand many cases of height-dizziness and height-fear.",
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          "ref": "2013, Steven Hyman, Fear and Anxiety: The Science of Mental Health:",
          "text": "Height fear emerges in infants shortly before they start crawling at six months (Scan: and Salapatek 1970) and rises with crawling experience (Berthenthal et al. 1983). As the two-year-old child explores further afield, animal fears emerge.",
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          "ref": "2015, Irena Milosevic Ph.D., Randi E. McCabe Ph.D., Phobias: The Psychology of Irrational Fear:",
          "text": "Results indicated that individuals high in height fear made greater estimations of the balcony's height, even when taking into account measures of cognitive bias.",
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        "The fear of being in a high location or position; fear of heights."
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          "heights",
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        {
          "word": "acrophobia"
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          "text": "The 5s were also told that learning would transfer to other height-fear situations although the transfer might not be immediate.",
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          "text": "From this point of view we shall more readily understand many cases of height-dizziness and height-fear.",
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        },
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