See water fear in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for water fear meaning in English (3.2kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "water",
"3": "fear"
},
"expansion": "water + fear",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From water + fear.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "water fears",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "water fear (countable and uncountable, plural water fears)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Fear",
"orig": "en:Fear",
"parents": [
"Emotions",
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1921, Harold Melvin Stanford, The Standard Reference Work",
"text": "Both men and animals afflicted with rabies dread the appearance of water or any other liquid; hence the term, hydrophobia, or water-fear.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1926, Principles of General Pharmacy and Chemistry",
"text": "Those colloids which absorb considerable water are hydrophyllic colloids, that is, water-fond colloids; while those which absorb but little or none are hydrophobic colloids, that is, water-fear colloids.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1947, The Journal of Health and Physical Education, volume 18, page 304",
"text": "One type of water fear harbored by many youngsters is directly traceable to an unfortunate childhood experience.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1958, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany - Volume 1, Issues 3-4, page 54",
"text": "This symptom which gave rise to the term hydrophobia or water-fear is the foundation of the cold water \"cure.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Michael W. Vasey, Mark R. Dadds, The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety, page 195",
"text": "This latter possibility seems particularly plausible from the perspective of the nonassociative model of water fear described previously.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, John R. Weisz, Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents",
"text": "The Lewis (1974) study of water fears also tested another variant of the modeling approach, participant modeling, in which the model carries out the feared activity with the fearful person.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Michelle Genevieve Craske, Dirk Hermans, Debora Vansteenwegen, Fear and Learning: From Basic Processes to Clinical Implications",
"text": "We are not aware of any careful cross-cultural or developmental work showing that water fear is innate, however.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Benjamin B. Lahey, Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, volume 1, page 310",
"text": "Although the modeling-plus-participation treatment was the most effective in the reduction of water fears, both modeling alone and participation alone were more effective than a no-treatment control condition.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The fear of water, hydrophobia."
],
"id": "en-water_fear-en-noun-dmpSih~Z",
"links": [
[
"fear",
"fear"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"hydrophobia",
"hydrophobia"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "aquaphobia"
},
{
"word": "waterfright"
},
{
"word": "water-fear"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "water fear"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "water",
"3": "fear"
},
"expansion": "water + fear",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From water + fear.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "water fears",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "water fear (countable and uncountable, plural water fears)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Fear"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1921, Harold Melvin Stanford, The Standard Reference Work",
"text": "Both men and animals afflicted with rabies dread the appearance of water or any other liquid; hence the term, hydrophobia, or water-fear.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1926, Principles of General Pharmacy and Chemistry",
"text": "Those colloids which absorb considerable water are hydrophyllic colloids, that is, water-fond colloids; while those which absorb but little or none are hydrophobic colloids, that is, water-fear colloids.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1947, The Journal of Health and Physical Education, volume 18, page 304",
"text": "One type of water fear harbored by many youngsters is directly traceable to an unfortunate childhood experience.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1958, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany - Volume 1, Issues 3-4, page 54",
"text": "This symptom which gave rise to the term hydrophobia or water-fear is the foundation of the cold water \"cure.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Michael W. Vasey, Mark R. Dadds, The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety, page 195",
"text": "This latter possibility seems particularly plausible from the perspective of the nonassociative model of water fear described previously.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, John R. Weisz, Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents",
"text": "The Lewis (1974) study of water fears also tested another variant of the modeling approach, participant modeling, in which the model carries out the feared activity with the fearful person.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Michelle Genevieve Craske, Dirk Hermans, Debora Vansteenwegen, Fear and Learning: From Basic Processes to Clinical Implications",
"text": "We are not aware of any careful cross-cultural or developmental work showing that water fear is innate, however.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Benjamin B. Lahey, Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, volume 1, page 310",
"text": "Although the modeling-plus-participation treatment was the most effective in the reduction of water fears, both modeling alone and participation alone were more effective than a no-treatment control condition.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The fear of water, hydrophobia."
],
"links": [
[
"fear",
"fear"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"hydrophobia",
"hydrophobia"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "aquaphobia"
},
{
"word": "waterfright"
},
{
"word": "water-fear"
}
],
"word": "water fear"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.