ergophobia

[ ur-guh-foh-bee-uh ]

noun
  1. Psychiatry. an irrational or disproportionate fear of or anxiety about work: Researchers are studying ergophobia and other barriers stay-at-home moms may face when reentering the workforce.Overtime, ergophobia, and burnout plague the tech sector.

  2. Facetious. an aversion to work: How many hours of productivity are we losing to long weekends, ergophobia, and the Monday blues?

Origin of ergophobia

1
First recorded in 1905–10; ergo-1 + -phobia

Other words from ergophobia

  • er·go·pho·bic, adjective, noun

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