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, Charlie Smith, "B.C. MLA Andrew Weaver expresses his exasperation over a coronaphobia-induced run on toilet paper", Georgia Straight, 8 March 2020:
- And, as Weaver noted, there wasn't any toilet paper on the shelves—all due to what some are calling "coronaphobia".
- 2020, Ben Ong, "The crash we have to have", Financial Standard, Volume 18, Number 5, 16 March 2020, 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, Henry Holloway, "Lidl becomes ‘first supermarket to close a UK store due to coronavirus’ after staff struck down with bug", The Sun (UK), 3 May 2020:
- 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.
- 2020, Charlie Smith, "B.C. MLA Andrew Weaver expresses his exasperation over a coronaphobia-induced run on toilet paper", Georgia Straight, 8 March 2020:
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