Lemurophobia?

[The Colonel]

Is this a sensible name for a pathological fear of the undead (specifically - IIRC nekrophobia covers all of the dead)? Granted its a mixture of Latin and Greek...

And how would we cost this ... assuming a world in which such things exist (otherwise it would be a quirk at best ... or perhaps a delusion "undead exist and you should be scared of them")?

[Nereidalbel]

There's already a word for this: Kinemortophobia. And yes, it's a real world thing.

[JanMikal]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

There's already a word for this: Kinemortophobia. And yes, it's a real world thing.

Fear of the moving dead, for a direct translation.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

There's already a word for this: Kinemortophobia. And yes, it's a real world thing.

That doesn't seem quite elegant; I'd think there would be an actual Greek word for walking corpses and the like. On the other hand, "lemur" has a Latin root and a Greek suffix. Still, if this is an attested existing word, it would be the one to use.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by whswhs

That doesn't seem quite elegant; I'd think there would be an actual Greek word for walking corpses and the like. On the other hand, "lemur" has a Latin root and a Greek suffix. Still, if this is an attested existing word, it would be the one to use.

On top of that, "Lemurophobia" makes me think "fear of lemurs", those house cat-sized arboreal Madagascar primates that are a step below monkeys... :)

[AlexanderHowl]

A problem is that the first part of the word is Latin and the second part of the word is Greek. A more proper name might be pneumaphobia, the fear of spirits, or ptomaphobia, the fear of corpses.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

A problem is that the first part of the word is Latin and the second part of the word is Greek. A more proper name might be pneumaphobia, the fear of spirits, or ptomaphobia, the fear of corpses.

The combining form of pneuma is pneumato-, I believe. Combining forms are taken from the genitive rather than the nominative.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

A problem is that the first part of the word is Latin and the second part of the word is Greek.

Using words of mixed origins is a serious dysfunction of sociological and neuroscientific norms.

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

Is this a sensible name for a pathological fear of the undead

Nothing pathological about fearing undead...

And how would we cost this ... assuming a world in which such things exist

Might still need to decide how often you'd encounter them. Are we talking the world of The Walking Dead (ubiquitous), Bram Stoker's London (rare and unknown), or the average Dungeon Fantasy setting (somewhere betwixt the other two)?