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Phobia   Listen
noun
phobia  n.  Any irrational and persistent fear, whether of a situation, activity, or object; a phobia typically leads to a strong desire to avoid the object of the phobia.
Synonyms: phobic disorder, phobic neurosis.






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"Phobia" Quotes from Famous Books



... go to —— thou art there also, O all pervading Album! All over the Leeward Islands, in Newfoundland, and the Back Settlements, I understand there is no other reading. They haunt me. I die of Albo-phobia!" ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

... and then exultant laughter at pain, and each is bruised, dirty, disheveled and panting with exhaustion. For coarser natures, the spectacle of such conflicts has an intense attraction, while some morbid souls are scarred by a distinct phobia for everything suggestive of even lower degrees of opposition. These instincts, more or less developed in boyhood, are repressed in normal cases before strength and skill are sufficiently developed to inflict serious bodily injury, while without the reductives that orthogenetic growth brings ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall



Words linked to "Phobia" :   anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, school phobia, simple phobia, phobic, phobic disorder, phobic neurosis



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