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22 maj 2020 · Current definitions distinguish between three different states of responses to height exposure: a physiological height imbalance that results from an impaired visual control of balance, a more or less distressing visual height intolerance, and acrophobia at the severest end of the spectrum.
Acrophobia, intense fear of heights. Persons affected by acrophobia are intensely fearful and anxious when high off the ground, such as in elevated parking garages or on bridges, or when thinking about being high off the ground.
The earliest known use of the noun acrophobe is in the 1890s. OED's earliest evidence for acrophobe is from 1894, in a translation by H. M. Bannister. acrophobe is formed within English, by compounding.
Literary Studies (History of the Book) Literary Studies (Plays and Playwrights) Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets) Literary Studies (Postcolonial Literature) ... Elms, Alan C, 'Asimov as Acrophobe', Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology (New York, ...
The earliest known use of the noun acrophobia is in the 1880s. OED's earliest evidence for acrophobia is from 1888, in the writing of A. Verga. acrophobia is formed within English, by compounding; probably modelled on an Italian lexical item. Etymons: acro- comb. form, phobia n. See etymology.
20 sie 2020 · acrophobia. (n.) "morbid fear of heights," 1887, medical Latin, from Greek akros "at the end, topmost" (from PIE root *ak- "be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce") + -phobia "fear." Coined by Italian physician Dr. Andrea Verga in a paper describing the condition, from which Verga himself suffered. In this paper, read somewhat over a year ago ...
1 lut 2011 · Jean-Paul Sartre defined fear as the emotion associated with the apprehension of danger arising from beyond oneself – that is, the apprehension of situations in which others or the concrete being of the inert threaten the subject from the outside.
