# what's the word for "freaked out to look at the ground from 2,000 feet, but not from 35,000 feet"?

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**Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word-for-freaked-out-to-look-at-the-ground-from-2-000-feet-but-not-from-35-000-feet/834578/11 "2019-05-27T13:47:50Z")

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I refer Honourable Member to the answer I gave nine years ago:

> [@What is the name for this phobia/anxiety?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-for-this-phobia-anxiety/543083/20):
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> I have acrophobia and have occasionally heard, or known by myself, that it was often more a fear of jumping than of falling. Wiki and Google do _not_ confirm this; they mention a different phobia (Catapedaphobia) but it doesn’t seem right either.
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> I also get the sensation **Cheshire Human** mentions but, fortunately, it’s just a light fantasy not a disabling fear.
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> I don’t fear heights riding airplanes … except (slightly) when next to emergency door!

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