coronaphobia

English

This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

Etymology

corona(virus) +‎ -phobia.

Noun

coronaphobia

(neologism) Fear or hysteria caused by COVID-19 and the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2020 March 8, Charlie Smith, “B.C. MLA Andrew Weaver expresses his exasperation over a coronaphobia-induced run on toilet paper”, in Georgia Straight:
  And, as Weaver noted, there wasn't any toilet paper on the shelves—all due to what some are calling "coronaphobia".
- 2020 March 16, Ben Ong, “The crash we have to have”, in Financial Standard, volume 18, number 5, page 28:
  The global freezing (of economic activity) wrought by coronaphobia is shaking what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe.
- 2020 May 3, Henry Holloway, “Lidl becomes ‘first supermarket to close a UK store due to coronavirus’ after staff struck down with bug”, in The Sun, UK:
  It came as a poll last week revealed two thirds of Brits were suffering from “coronaphobia” and were too scared to leave the house or return to work.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:coronaphobia.

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