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Etymology

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First attested inc. 1790, from words ending in-phobia, ultimately fromAncient Greekφόβος(phóbos,fear). Compareism, from-ism,itis, from-itis, andana, from-ana.

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Noun

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phobia (pluralphobiasorphobiaeorphobiæ)

  1. Anirrational,abnormal, orobsessivefear (of something).
    I know someone with a strangephobia of ladders.
    • 1925,Sinclair Lewis,Arrowsmith:
      It was when anthropophobia set in, when he was made uneasy by people who walked too close to him, that, sagely viewing his list and seeing how manyphobias were now checked, he permitted himself to rest.
  2. Anaversion ordislike (of something).
    • 1914,McClure's Magazine, page140:
      Some patients have thephobia of light, and others have thephobia of darkness. Another common aversion is that of high places. The phobiac of this type can not sit in the gallery[]
    • 200906, Michael G. Peletz,Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times, Routledge,→ISBN, page162:
      For as interviewer Than Win Htut expressed it, “misunderstandings about, andphobia of, gay life and homosexuality are very common in Burma.” Than Win Htut went on to observe that in Burma []
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:phobia.

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Translations

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irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety

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