Concept cluster: Society > Specific phobias
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Morbid preoccupation with thoughts about cleanliness; obsession with bathing or washing.
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A person who fears bathing.
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Pathological fear of washing or bathing.
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Of or pertaining to or suffering from ablutophobia
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(medicine) The fear of itching or of small crawling insects that cause itching, such as mites or lice.
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(neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting acephobia.
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The fear of darkness.
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A person who suffers from achluophobia.
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(rare, humorous) The fear of little people, or midgets.
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Fear of noise.
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phobia or strong fear of being high above ground level
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Of or pertaining to or suffering from acrophobia
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A person who is afraid of flying.
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(travel) Fear of flying
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Having a fear of flying in aircraft.
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(psychology, psychiatry) A fear of insanity.
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(rare) Of or relating to agateophobia.
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Alternative form of algophobia [Fear of pain.]
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The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
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One who fears open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
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Fear of sexual abuse.
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Fear of wild animals.
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fear of crossing the street
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(humorous, nonce word) An irrational fear of palindromes.
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The fear of needles and other pointed or sharp objects.
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The fear of chickens.
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(very rare) An individual who suffers from alethophobia.
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(psychology) A fear or dislike of the truth; an unwillingness to come to terms with truth or facts.
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(very rare) Of or pertaining to alethophobia.
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Alternative form of algophobia [Fear of pain.]
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Fear of pain.
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A person who is unhappy to rely on data produced by an algorithm
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A person characterized by allophilia, i.e., positive intergroup attitudes.
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Fear of heights.
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Fear of dust.
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Fear of being in or riding in a vehicle.
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Having amaxophobia (fear of riding in a vehicle).
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Fear of walking or standing.
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(humorous) The fear that one is being constantly watched by a duck.
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A fear of angina; The irrational fear of choking, angina or narrowing of the throat. This is mainly caused by experience or being a witness to someone choking.
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The fear of ankylosis.
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Fear of flowers.
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A person who actively avoids or fears human beings
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A profound fear of human beings, or of human society.
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(informal, rare) someone who has a negative or prejudiced opinion about dentists
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(rare) The fear of floods or inundation.
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(rare) The fear of remaining unmarried or being married to the wrong person.
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An aversion to human company; love of solitude.
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The fear of infinity and/or eternity.
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A person that suffers from aphantasia.
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A morbid fear of being touched.
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Alternative form of haphephobia [The fear of being touched.]
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Fearlessness, a lack of fear.
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An inordinate fear of bees.
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(psychology) A fear of amputation (afraid that one will lose appendages), fear of amputations (fear of amputations on others), fear of amputees (persons with amputations).
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Person who has aquaphobia.
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A fear of water, especially a morbid fear of drowning.
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Relating to aquaphobia
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(humorous, rare) Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.
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Alternative form of arachnophobia [An abnormal or irrational fear of arachnids (especially spiders).]
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An abnormal or irrational fear of arachnids (especially spiders).
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Suffering from arachnophobia.
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Synonym of arachnophobia
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(rare) Fear of the color orange, or the fruit orange.
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Synonym of pyrophobia
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(rare) Of or relating to arsonphobia.
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(neologism, rare) Someone suffering from astraphobia.
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An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
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(rare) Morbidly afraid of thunderstorms.
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astraphobia
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A fear of stars and celestial space.
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An aversion to asymmetry.
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Abnormal fear or dislike of messiness, often associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
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Having fear or hatred of atheism or atheists
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Someone suffering from atychiphobia.
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(rare) The fear of failure.
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(medicine) Excessive sensitivity to noise
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fear of flutes
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The fear of gold; by extension, the fear of wealth.
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(rare) Fear of the northern lights.
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showing Austrophobia.
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Fear of human-like figures, such as mannequins, wax figures, statues, dummies, animatronics, or robots.
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An abnormal fear of being dirty.
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The morbid fear of being alone or of oneself.
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Of or pertaining to autophobia
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The condition of being autophobic
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Fear of flying.
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A person afflicted with aviophobia.
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Fear of flying.
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Uncommon spelling of aerophobia. [(medicine) A pathological aversion or sensitivity to air or the movement of air, especially as a symptom of rabies.]
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The fear of microbes.
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An abnormal fear of bacteria
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Afflicted with bacteriophobia.
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Fear, hate, or dislike of bananas.
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An abnormal fear of gravity.
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Alternative form of basophobia [Inability to walk or stand erect, due to emotional causes.]
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Inability to walk or stand erect, due to emotional causes.
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The fear of stairs and steep slopes.
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The fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves.
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(rare) The irrational fear of subways and the underground in general.
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The fear of high objects or of high objects falling down.
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Fear of frogs.
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An irrational fear of needles and pins, usually resulting in abnormal behavior and anxiety.
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The fear or dislike of books.
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aversion to nature
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(rare) A person who has blennophobia.
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(very rare) The irrational fear of slime.
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A fear that one has an offensive body odour
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The fear of thunder and lightning.
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The fear of ugliness or ugly people.
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The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
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The fear of beautiful women.
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A person who has cancerphobia.
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Inordinate dread of developing cancer.
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Having or relating to cancerphobia.
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An irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines; cynophobia.
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(informal) The fear of, or aversion to, the use or legalization of cannabis.
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One who fears or obsessively avoids eating carbohydrates.
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Intense or obsessive avoidance of carbohydrates.
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(medicine) A morbid fear of cancer.
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Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
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Having or relating to carcinophobia.
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A person who has cardiophobia.
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An inordinate fear of heart disease.
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(psychology) The literal or metaphorical fear of emasculation; associated with the early psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.
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Fear of being ridiculed
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The fear of mirrors.
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(humorous) The fear of having an empty glass when drinking.
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A dislike of being in the centre.
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Relating to centrophobia
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(rare) fear of hair and/or hairy people or animals
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An irrational fear of chemicals
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A person having such a fear
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(rare) aversion to being happy
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Synonym of Sinophobia
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Fear of snow.
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Relating to or characteristic of chionophobes
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the fear of hands.
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fear of bats (the flying mammals)
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Fear of the color green.
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A morbid fear of cholera.
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The fear of money, spending money, or having too much or not enough money.
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Christianophobia
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characterized by or related to Christophobia/Christianophobia
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Fear of money.
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fear of timepieces
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Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.
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(informal, rare) An aversion to the color orange.
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The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
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One who dislikes movies.
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(film) The fear or hatred of films and the cinema.
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Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting cisphobia.
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Alternative form of claustrophobia [The fear of closed, tight places.]
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A person who has the condition of claustrophilia, a love of closed-in spaces.
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The fear of closed, tight places.
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(uncommon) Alternative form of claustrophobic [Someone with claustrophobia]
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(psychology) Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.
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fear of being trapped
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The fear of staircases or of falling down stairs.
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(rare, medicine) A fear of being locked in.
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(rare, informal) The fear of clowns.
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(phobias) The abnormal and persistent fear of cemeteries.
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The fear of coitus, or sexual intercourse.
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(American spelling) Exhibiting colorphobia.
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Exhibiting or relating to commitment-phobia.
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Alternative form of commitment-phobe [A person who is reluctant to form a commitment in a romantic relationship.]
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(informal) A reluctance to, or fear of, committing oneself to a romantic relationship.
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A commitmentphobe.
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Fear or irrational dislike of computers; cyberphobia.
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A fear of feces.
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The fear or dread of outer space.
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Exhibiting cosmophobia; being afraid of outer space.
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A person who fears or dislikes clowns.
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The fear of clowns.
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A counterphobic person.
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(psychology) A compulsion to seek out the causes of fear or anxiety instead of avoiding them.
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Tending to respond to fear or anxiety by actively seeking it out instead of fleeing.
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(informal) fear, anxiety
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A morbid fear of abysses or precipices.
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The fear of being a victim of crime
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Fear of the colour blue.
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A person afflicted by cyberphobia; one who fears or dislikes computers.
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Fear of computers and technology.
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Pertaining to, or afflicted by, cyberphobia.
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A person with cynophobia.
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Of or relating to cynophobia, having a irrational fear or hatred / dislike of dogs or other canines.
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A fear of venereal disease or of sexual intercourse
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(rare) showing Danophobia.
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Tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.
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One who is data phobic.
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Alternative form of data phobic [Tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.]
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Alternative form of data-phobe [One who is data phobic.]
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Alternative form of data phobic [Tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.]
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(informal, humorous) Reluctance to make decisions.
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(medicine) Fear of painful bowel movements.
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(rare) A fear of banquets or dinner parties.
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(rare) A morbid fear of trees.
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A person afflicted by dentophobia; one who fears going to the dentist.
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Fear of dentists or their medical procedures.
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(psychology, computing) The excessive fear of deleting files, or an extreme fear of losing one's data.
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The fear of going to school.
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Fear of judges
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Fear of alcohol.
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(rare) A person who hates the films or theme parks of The Walt Disney Company.
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Exhibiting or relating to disposophobia.
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A morbid fear of being inside a house.
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A compulsive flight from domesticity.
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The fear of touching the fur or skin of an animal.
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A fear of being praised.
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(informal) The fear or hatred of George W. Bush.
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(dated, psychiatry) body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphia
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(psychiatry) Of or relating to dysmorphophobia.
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fear of churches
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Fear of one’s home.
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(rare) Fear of seeing one’s reflection in a mirror.
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A fear of sharks
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fear of electricity
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(rare) Fear of freedom.
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(psychology) One who fears vomit or regurgitation; one suffering from emetophobia.
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An inordinate fear of vomit or vomiting, especially in public.
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Pertaining to, or afflicted with, emetophobia, a morbid fear of vomiting.
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Showing enbyphobia or pertaining to it.
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(rare) Fear of crowds.
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A person who fears or dislikes insects.
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Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods
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(rare) A morbid fear of dawn or daylight.
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An abnormal or irrational fear of correspondence, especially the receiving or writing of letters or messages.
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A person who has equinophobia: a fear of horses or other hoofed animals.
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An irrational fear of horses or other hoofed animals like ponies, donkeys, or mules.
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Having or relating to equinophobia.
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fear of solitude
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Alternative form of erythrophobia [abnormal and persistent fear of blushing]
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Alternative form of erythrophobia [abnormal and persistent fear of blushing]
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An irrational fear of being able to work properly, especially that of a surgeon being able to operate.
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A person who dislikes working.
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A fear or aversion to work
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averse to doing work
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Abnormal and persistent fear of the colour red.
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Alternative form of erythrophobia [abnormal and persistent fear of blushing]
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Fear of hearing good news.
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(rare) Fear of the female genitals.
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(literature) Relating to the book "Exophobic: Mind Matters" (ref at exophobe.com)
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Fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat.
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acrophobia
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A form of social anxiety characterized by compulsive concern that one might be missing opportunities for social interaction, novel experiences, profitable investments, or other favorable things.
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A person who dislikes cats.
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Synonym of ailurophobia
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Exhibiting or relating to femmephobia.
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Initialism of fear of missing out. [A form of social anxiety characterized by compulsive concern that one might be missing opportunities for social interaction, novel experiences, profitable investments, or other favorable things.]
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The fear that an artificial intelligence will turn against humans.
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An abnormal and persistent fear of becoming cold or freezing.
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An irrational fear of mushrooms or other fungi
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(uncommon) The irrational fear of cats or felines.
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The fear of marriage.
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One who has gamophobia.
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The fear of marriage.
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Of, relating to, or exhibiting gamophobia.
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Synonym of ailurophobia
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Fear of laughter.
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2011, Robert Mankoff, “Fear of Laughter”, in The New Yorker:
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A person who experiences gelotophobia, one who fears being laughed at.
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An abnormal and persistent fear of being laughed at.
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Relating to gelotophobia
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The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
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Relating to or characteristic of genophobia or genophobes.
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An inordinate fear of bridges, especially crossing bridges.
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The abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old.
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Alternative form of germ-fear [The fear of germs and other pathogenic micro-organisms; germophobia.]
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The fear of germs and other pathogenic micro-organisms; germophobia.
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Alternative form of germophobia [Pathological fear of germs.]
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Alternative form of germophobic [Morbidly afraid of germs.]
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Pathological fear of germs.
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Morbidly afraid of germs.
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One who has gerontophobia.
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An abnormal and persistent fear of elderly individuals or people.
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Of, relating to, or exhibiting gerontophobia.
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Someone suffering from gingerphobia.
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Extreme fear of balloons.
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The fear of public speaking.
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(informal, humorous) A fear or dislike of garden gnomes.
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An excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.
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(rare, humorous) An aversion to grammar.
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Fear or dislike of writing.
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One who has an aversion to nudity.
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An inordinate fear or hatred of nudity.
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Relating to or characteristic of gymnophobia.
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(psychology) An irrational fear of women.
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Alternative form of gynaecophobia [(psychology) An irrational fear of women.]
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Fear of blood.
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Alternative spelling of hemophobia [Fear of blood.]
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The fear, dislike, or hatred of holiness and/or of holy things.
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A morbid fear of having bad breath.
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(very rare) A fear of being handicapped, or of having a handicapped child
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The fear of being touched.
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Suffering from haphephobia.
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An irrational fear of pleasure or joy, especially engaging in pleasurable or joyful activities while others are experiencing depression, illness, pain, economic hardship, or other grief.
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Alternative form of height-fear [The fear of being in a high location or position; fear of heights.]
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The fear of being in a high location or position; fear of heights.
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Fear of sunlight.
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averse to sunlight
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A morbid fear of parasitic worms.
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Fear of blood.
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A strong aversion to heresy.
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Fear of reptiles, amphibians, and similar animals.
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Someone who exhibits heterophobia.
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Relating to, or exhibiting, heterophobia.
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(chiefly Christianity) Fear of the number 666.
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(rare) Of or pertaining to hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
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Fear of what is religious or sacred.
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An irrational fear of horses or other hoofed animals like ponies, donkeys, or mules.
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Fearing or disliking horses.
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(humorous) The fear of long words.
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The phobia of Adolf Hitler.
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A morbid fear of travel.
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(psychiatry) Suffering from hodophobia; pathologically afraid of travel.
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(rare) The fear of fog.
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Alternative form of homonymophobia (“fear or aversion to the use of homonyms”) [(linguistics) The tendency of speakers of a language to choose a different word in order to avoid a homonym that threatens to cause confusion.]
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(derogatory, rare) Someone who has an irrational fear of guns.
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The irrational fear of guns.
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(derogatory, rare) Having an irrational fear of guns.
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(psychology, colloquial) A morbid fear of water; aquaphobia.
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Of, or having, hydrophobia (rabies).
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The fear of hydrophobia, or rabies.
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The fear of forests or wooded areas.
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A fear of responsibility, or of neglecting one's responsibilities.
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Fear of heights.
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An intense dislike of doctors or the medical profession.
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A person who has iatrophobia; one who fears going to the doctor.
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An abnormal or irrational fear of doctors or going to the doctor.
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Having or relating to iatrophobia.
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An aversion to icons.
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An inordinate fear of ideas, especially new ones, or of reasoning.
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The irrational fear of infants, pregnancy, or maternalism.
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A person afflicted by insectophobia.
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(pathology) An abnormal fear of insects.
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(rare) An aversion to the Internet.
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Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting interphobia.
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Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting intersexphobia.
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(rare) Fear of change.
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(rare) The abnormal fear of failure or defeat.
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Of or pertaining to kakorrhaphiophobia.
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Alternative spelling of catagelophobia [Fear of being ridiculed]
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Fear or dislike of cockroaches.
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An abnormal fear of empty spaces.
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An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
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Alternative form of kinesophobia [A pathological fear of motion or movement.]
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Alternative form of kinesophobic [Relating to kinesophobia]
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A pathological fear of motion or movement.
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Relating to kinesophobia
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Abnormal fear of theft.
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The fear of buttons (clothing fasteners).
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Alternative form of cynophobia [An irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines.]
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A person who has lachanophobia.
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An irrational fear of vegetables.
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An irrational fear of speaking
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An abnormal or irrational fear of butterflies.
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Alternative form of leprophobia [(psychology) An irrationally excessive fear of Hansen's disease (leprosy) and lepers.]
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(rare) Pathological fear of or aversion to the color white.
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Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
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A fear of dietary fat.
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Fear of computers.
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One who has logophobia.
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Fear of words.
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Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logophobia, the fear of words or of talking.
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(rare) Fear of wolves.
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The fear of lyssa, or rabies.
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Fear of cooking, a powerful fear of preparing food.
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(archaic) Morbid dread of childbirth.
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A person with maniaphobia.
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An abnormal fear of being insane.
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Having, or acting with, maniaphobia.
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(feminism) The fear of becoming like one's mother.
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A person who has a fear of machines.
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A fear of machines.
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The fear of or aversion to medical professionals or procedures.
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Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting medicophobia.
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The fear of large objects
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(informal) The irrational fear of (astrophysical) black holes.
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(rare) Fear of ink.
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Aversion to music
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(informal) The fear of menopause.
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(rare) The persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change.
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An aversion to cities.
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The fear of speaking (usually on stage) using a microphone.
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A morbid fear of microbes.
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A dislike of new ideas.
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(rare) dislike of children
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A person who dislikes children.
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Alternative form of mysophobia [An abnormal fear of uncleanliness, dirt, or contamination.]
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A person who suffers from misophonia.
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An aversion to using the same word twice.
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The fear of a definite disease.
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A fear of being alone.
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Having or relating to monophobia, the fear of being alone.
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An irrational fear of doing something that could be perceived by others as wrong
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One who fears or dislikes automobiles.
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Fear or dislike of automobiles or riding in one.
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Synonym of motorphobe (“one who fears or dislikes automobiles”)
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An irrational fear of moths or butterflies.
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Having more than one phobia.
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fear of mice
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Having or relating to an aversion to mushrooms or fungi.
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The fear of ants.
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A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
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An abnormal fear of uncleanliness, dirt, or contamination.
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Of, pertaining to, or suffering from mysophobia
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Synonym of trypanophobia
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The fear of new drugs or medication.
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The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
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Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new
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Fear of clouds.
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A morbid fear of names.
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(informal, humorous) A person who hates to be without a mobile phone.
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(colloquial) The fear of not having a functioning mobile phone.
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Of or pertaining to nomophobia.
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(medicine) An abnormal fear of hospitals.
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Someone who suffers from nosophobia.
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An excessive or irrational fear of contracting a disease, such as: HIV/AIDS, pulmonary tuberculosis, venereal diseases, cancer, and heart diseases.
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Relating to nosophobia
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A fear of returning home, for example after prison or military service.
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An aversion to the past, the antithesis of nostalgia.
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Fear or dislike of one's stepmother.
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A love of crowds or crowded places
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A person having a fear of crowds.
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A phobia, or fear, of mob-like crowds, as opposed to simply open spaces like agoraphobia or large crowds as with enochlophobia.
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Synonym of ochlophobe
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(obsolete, rare) A person with a phobia, or fear, of mob-like crowds, as opposed to simply open spaces like agoraphobia or large crowds as with enochlophobia.
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An irrational fear of dentistry.
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Archaic spelling of ecophobia. [Fear of one’s home.]
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One who suffers from oikophobia, especially one who identifies with a global group rather than feelings of patriotism or chauvinism.
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Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
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Synonym of ombrophobic
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The fear of everything; panphobia.
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(rare) Fear of navels.
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The fear of dreams.
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(rare) The fear of hearing particular names or words.
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An ophiophobe; one who fears snakes.
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Ophiophobia; a fear of snakes.
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relating to ophidiophobia; having fear of snakes
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One who fears or hates snakes.
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A morbid fear of snakes.
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Afraid of snakes.
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(medicine) The aversion to prescribing, administering or taking opioid medications for fear of addiction.
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An aversion to prescribing opiates.
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(medicine) Of, relating to, or affected by opiophobia—the aversion to prescribing or administering opiates for analgesia.
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The fear of opening one's eyes.
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Fear of heaven.
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(biology) The aversion to certain foods forming part of a diet associated with an earlier nutritional deficiency or other illness.
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A condition of groundless fears.
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A person who experiences or exhibits panphobia.
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The fear of everything.
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Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting panphobia.
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A total absence of fear; fearlessness.
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The fear of everything; panphobia.
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the pathological fear of the pope or the papacy
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The fear or hate of paper
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Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
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A mild form of phobia, causing only unwillingness or hesitancy.
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A morbid fear of becoming infested with parasites.
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an irrational fear of girls, especially virgins
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A morbid fear of pregnancy.
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fear of disease
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A morbid fear of lice.
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A fear of dolls.
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An irrational, obsessive fear or dislike of children.
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Having a fear of children.
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The fear of baldness and/or of bald people.
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The fear of poverty or poor people.
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Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright.
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Synonym of Iranophobia
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(rare) Fear and/or paranoia due to the economics of oil and petroleum.
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A fear of swallowing.
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Exhibiting or relating to phallophobia.
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The irrational fear or avoidance of a medicine, or of medicines in general.
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The fear of ghosts.
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(rare) aversion to daylight
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An abnormal or irrational fear of kissing.
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Someone who suffers from philophobia; someone who fears falling in love.
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fear of falling in love
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Of, relating to, or exhibiting philophobia.
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An aversion to philosophy.
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A morbid dread of humankind.
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A person who experiences a phobia (“fear or dislike”).
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An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
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A person with a phobia.
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One who is phobic or antagonistic towards something.
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The fear of fear itself.
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Experiencing or expressing phobia (strong fear and/or dislike).
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(chiefly dated) phobia
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(dated) A person who has a phobia.
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That causes fear, or a phobia
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The fear of fear; the fear of developing a phobia.
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An individual who suffers from phonophobia.
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An unusual fear of sound, especially of speaking aloud or of one's own voice.
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(medicine) Synonym of photophonophobia
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An aversion to or fear of being photographed, the dissemination of personal photographs, or viewing photographs.
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(medicine) Excessive sensitivity to light and sound; abnormal fear of light and sound.
n
A morbid fear of tuberculosis.
n
(informal) The fear of trusting one's partner in a romantic relationship.
n
An aversion to wealthy people
n
(rare, humorous) Someone who suffers from pogonophobia.
adj
(rare) Having an aversion to beards.
n
Fear of many things; a collection of fears.
adj
Relating to or characteristic of polyphobia.
n
An aversion to postmodernism or postmodernists.
n
A fear or dislike of pigs.
n
Fear of prostitutes
n
(rare) A morbid fear of rivers.
n
(obsolete) A neurotic or hysterical manifestation resembling rabies.
adj
Of or relating to pseudohydrophobia.
n
A purported phobia whose existence is uncorroborated.
adj
Of, or pertaining to pseudophobia
n
(medicine, rare) A fear of the mind, particularly mental illness. Like dementia
n
Fear of flying.
n
The fear of feathers.
n
(rare) The fear of puppets.
n
A person who is afraid of fire.
n
An fear or hatred of fire or flames.
adj
Suffering from pyrophobia; afraid of fire.
n
The fear of frogs.
n
(rare) The fear of rectal disease.
n
A person who has reeferphobia
n
A fear of cannabis or the people who consume it
adj
Relating to reeferphobes or to reeferphobia
n
A religiophobic person.
n
The fear of defecation.
n
Fear or hatred of robots.
n
The fear of rubbish or dirt.
adj
Suffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.
n
Synonym of Russophobia
n
Synonym of Russophobia
n
(humorous) The fear of Santa Claus or Christmas.
n
(rare, humorous) A fear of romantic interactions such as dating and kissing.
n
(rare) A fear of Satan.
n
A morbid fear of scabies.
n
An abnormal fear of or aversion to attending school as a pupil.
adj
Having or relating to schoolphobia.
n
A fear of, or aversion to, crossing a threshold or entering a place to begin a new chapter.
n
An aversion to science.
n
An unreasonable fear of being seen, or stared at
n
Fear of blindness; fear of spots in one's visual field.
n
Fear of darkness.
n
(psychiatry) The fear of earthquakes.
n
Unreasonable fear or dislike of sharks.
n
(rare, medicine) Fear or intolerance of flashes of light.
n
Fear of long words.
n
Someone who has sexophobia.
adj
Pertaining to, having, or exhibiting sexophobia.
n
(rare) A person who exhibits Shiaphobia
n
A morbid fear of railways.
n
Sensory phobia of cotton or cotton balls.
adj
Relating to or characteristic of Sinophobia or Sinophobes.
n
Alternative form of sitophobia [(pathology) A morbid or insane dread of eating. An aversion to food.]
n
(pathology) A morbid or insane dread of eating. An aversion to food.
n
(rare) A fear of snakes; ophiophobia.
n
Social anxiety disorder.
n
Social anxiety disorder.
n
social phobia
n
Someone suffering from sonophobia.
n
An unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).
adj
relating to sonophobia
n
The fear of learning.
n
A person who has spasmophilia
n
Any morbid fear of specific objects or situations, such as fingers, injections, or darkness.
n
A morbid fear of mirrors.
n
(uncountable) The fear of speaking in public, especially of giving speech presentations.
n
(rare) Synonym of germophobia
n
Fear of wasps.
n
Alternative form of spider-fear [The fear of spiders; arachnophobia.]
n
The fear of spiders; arachnophobia.
n
Synonym of arachnophobia
n
Fear or tension caused by the thought of performing in front of a crowd.
n
(psychiatry) The fear of standing and walking.
n
(rare) A morbid fear of standing upright.
n
(medicine) The fear of using therapeutic steroids, often caused by concerns of their side effects.
n
The fear of Hell.
n
(very rare) A fear of man-made objects submerged partially or fully underwater.
n
(medicine, rare) A fear of particular icons or symbols; systems that utilize symbolism, such as artificial intelligence; or that one's own speech or actions may be interpreted as having symbolic meanings.
n
aversion to symmetry
n
Alternative form of syphilophobia [A morbid fear of syphilis.]
n
(medicine, dated) syphilophobia in people who do not already have syphilis
n
One who has syphilophobia.
n
A morbid fear of syphilis.
adj
Having or relating to syphilophobia.
n
A morbid fear of tabes (wasting disease).
n
A Japanese form of anthropophobia, a fear of interpersonal relations.
n
Alternative spelling of taphophobia [a fear of being buried alive]
n
a fear of being buried alive
n
Fear of bulls.
adj
(informal) Fearing or opposing taxes.
n
Technophobia.
n
The fear or loathing of modern technology.
n
The unreasonable fear of modern technology.
adj
Exhibiting an unreasonable fear of modern technology.
n
A fear of new technologies.
n
(philosophy) Reluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.
n
A fear or dislike of television.
adj
Having a fear or dislike of television.
n
A fear of talking on the telephone.
adj
Having or relating to telephonophobia.
n
(rare) An irrational fear of monsters (terrifying creatures, or deformed children).
n
Custom of avoiding the number four (4) commonly seen in East Asian countries in which the words for "4" and "death" are paronymous or homophonous.
n
A morbid fear of the sea.
n
Fear of death.
n
A person with an aversion to theatre.
n
Fear of theatre
n
One who subscribes to theophobia.
n
An irrational fear of God.
adj
Of or relating to theophobia; afraid of a God or gods.
n
A person who has a fear of god, or a hatred of god. Affected with Theophobia.
n
Alternative form of tokophobia [A morbid fear of childbirth or pregnancy.]
adj
Alternative spelling of tokophobic [Having or relating to tokophobia.]
n
One who has tokophobia.
n
A morbid fear of childbirth or pregnancy.
adj
Having or relating to tokophobia.
n
(neologism, rare) An unusual fear of surgeries or medical procedures involving cutting.
n
A morbid fear of poisons or being poisoned.
n
Alternative form of toxicophobia [A morbid fear of poisons or being poisoned.]
n
An abnormal fear of battle or war, or being physically injured during activities like sports.
n
A morbid fear of trichinosis.
n
A fear relating to the colour, growth or disorders of hair.
n
A morbid fear of hair or diseases affecting the hair.
n
(rare) Someone who suffers from triskaidekaphobia.
n
Someone who suffers from triskaidekaphobia
n
The fear of moving or of making changes.
n
(informal, rare) An aversion to hearing the truth.
n
Alternative form of truthaphobia [(informal, rare) An aversion to hearing the truth.]
n
A person affected by trypanophobia; one who fears medical procedures (such as injection) using needles.
n
An irrational fear of medical procedures (such as injection) using needles.
adj
Having a fear of medical procedures (such as injection) using needles.
n
A person who suffers from trypophobia.
n
(psychology) An irrational or obsessive fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, such as those found in honeycombs.
adj
Relating to, or suffering from, trypophobia.
n
A morbid fear of tuberculosis.
adj
Having a dislike of television.
adj
Synonym of tyrannophobic
adj
Characterized by tyrannophobia.
n
(rare) Fear of heaven.
n
(very rare) An inordinate fear of one's own wife, or of wives.
n
The mythical toothed vagina; often related to castration anxiety.
n
Fear or hatred of vaginas.
adj
Fearing or hating vaginas.
n
An aversion to, or dislike of, vegetarians and vegans.
n
The fear or dislike of vegetables.
n
Fear of driving.
n
A morbid fear of venereal disease.
adj
Afflicted with venereophobia.
n
(rare) Fear of beautiful women.
n
A fear of words.
n
An abnormal or irrational fear of worms or being infected by worms.
n
A dislike of television.
n
(rare, nonstandard) A fear of water; aquaphobia.
n
The fear or hatred of Wicca or Wiccans.
n
One who fears or dislikes wikis.
n
Fear or dislike of wikis.
n
An aversion to foreign languages.
n
A fear of aliens.
n
(rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
n
(rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
adj
Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
n
xenophobia
adj
Synonym of xenophobic
n
A fear of wooden objects.
n
The fear of God or gods.
n
An unusual fear of animals.
n
Alternative spelling of zoophobia [An unusual fear of animals.]
n
(rare) Archaic spelling of ecophobia. [Fear of one’s home.]

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