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What is the noun for hydrophobia?

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hydrophobia
  1. (pathology) An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; rabies itself.
  2. (psychology) Fear of water
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Merely staring at the sea was enough to make her feel sick, her hydrophobia flaring.”
      “They have been telling us for years that the so-called hydrophobia of man was mostly or entirely lyssophobia. ”
      “To protect a healthy person forever from smallpox, hydrophobia, diptheria and so on, the doctor gives him those very diseases.”
hydrophilicity
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being hydrophilic.
  2. (countable) A measure of the extent to which something is hydrophilic.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Physical chemical properties were polar requirement, hydrophilicity, molecular weight, and volume.”
      “To ensure a good fit with an application, the company can modify the adhesive to offer hydrophilicity and other properties.”
      “Geim blames this shortcoming on polyimide's hydrophilicity, that is, its tendency to attract water.”
hydrophobicity
  1. (chemistry) The condition of being hydrophobic
  2. (chemistry) The degree to which a substance is hydrophobic
  3. Examples:
    1. “Bacterial affinity for the host cell is known to be influenced by cell surface hydrophobicity.”
      “These results were similar to previously reported values for polystyrene and showed high hydrophobicity.”
      “The amount of dimer that exists in organic solvents often increases with increasing solvent hydrophobicity.”
hydrophobin
  1. Any of a class of small, cysteine-rich proteins that are expressed only by filamentous fungi, known for their capability of forming a hydrophobic coating on the surface of an object.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In studies of class I hydrophobin rodlets it has been estimated that the rodlet diameters range from 2 to 15 nm, which is also within the range of some other amyloid proteins.”
hydropathicity
  1. (chemistry) The relative hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity of a compound, especially of an amino acid residue in a protein
hydrophobization
  1. (chemistry) The act or process of making something hydrophobic, such as the surface of a particle
hydrophobe
  1. (chemistry) A hydrophobic compound or material
  2. Examples:
    1. “The very fact they got me through the basic scuba-diving certificate is something of an achievement for such a hydrophobe.”
      “The alkyl functionality also acts as a hydrophobe to reduce water absorption.”
      “This noncoupling treatment is a thermally stable, aromatic hydrophobe designed to improve dispersion and wetout while displacing moisture from the filler surface.”
hydrophobophobia
hydrophobics
  1. (chemistry) The study, and the application of hydrophobicity
hydrophoby
  1. Archaic form of hydrophobia.
hydropathicities
  1. plural of hydropathicity
hydrophilicities
  1. plural of hydrophilicity
hydrophobicities
  1. plural of hydrophobicity
hydrophobins
  1. plural of hydrophobin
hydrophobias
hydrophobes
  1. plural of hydrophobe
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