Quote by: Douglas Coupland

Dimanchophobia: Fear of Sundays, not in a religious sense but rather, a condition that reflects fear of unstructured time. Also known as acalendrical anxiety. Not to be confused with didominicaphobia, or kyriakephobia, fear of the Lord's Day. Dimanchophobia is a mental condition created by modernism and industrialism. Dimanchophobes particularly dislike the period between Christmas and New Year's, when days of the week lose their significance and time blurs into a perpetual Sunday. Another way of expressing dimanchophobia might be "life in a world without calendars." A popular expression of this condition can be found in the pop song "Every Day is Like Sunday," by Morrissey, in which he describes walking on a beach after a nuclear way, when every day of the week now feels like Sunday.


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Author Bio


  • NameDouglas Coupland
  • DescriptionCanadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
  • BornDecember 30, 1961
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionWriter; Sculptor; Novelist; Artist; Designer; Screenwriter
  • WorksGeneration X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture; Microserfs; JPod
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of Canada