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Phobias
The word phobia comes from an ancient Greek word phobos, meaning fear. It forms part of many English words describing an extreme or irrational fear of a particular object, event, or situation, demonstrating perhaps that life is surprisingly full of potentially frightening things. Object of Fear animals beards bed bees being buried alive being looked at birds blood blushing body odours bullets cancer cats childbirth church clouds computers corpses clowns crowds dampness darkness death dirt disease/illness dogs Phobia zoophobia pogonophobia clinophobia apiphobia taphephobia scopophobia ornithophobia haemophobia erythrophobia bromidrosiphobia ballistophobia carcinophobia ailurophobia tocophobia ecclesiophobia nephephobia cyberphobia necrophobia coulrophobia ochlophobia hygrophobia scotophobia thanatophobia mysophobia nosophobia cynophobia Object of Fear dreams drink dust enclosed places eyes faeces fear feathers fire fish floods food fur ghosts glass hair heat hell high places home horses ice idleness insects insect stings Phobia oneirophobia potophobia koniophobia claustrophobia ommetophobia coprophobia phobophobia pteronophobia pyrophobia ichthyophobia antlophobia sitophobia/ cibophobia doraphobia phasmophobia nelophobia trichophobia thermophobia stygiophobia acrophobia/ hypsophobia oikophobia hippophobia cryophobia thassophobia entomophobia cnidophobia

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Object of Fear itching lice lightning loneliness magic marriage men mice mirrors mobs money names needles night nudity open places pain people pleasure precipices priests rail travel rivers robbers sea Phobia acarophobia pediculophobia astrapophobia autophobia rhabdophobia gametophobia androphobia musophobia eisoptrophobia ochlophobia chrematophobia onomatophobia belonephobia nyctophobia gymnophobia agoraphobia algophobia anthropophobia hedonophobia cremnophobia hierophobia siderodromophobia potomophobia harpaxophobia thalassophobia Object of Fear sex sleep slime snakes snow solitude speed spiders stars string stuttering sun swallowing teeth thirteen thunder touch travel water waves wind women words work worms Phobia erotophobia hypnophobia blennophobia ophidiophobia chionophobia eremophobia tachophobia arachnophobia siderophobia linonophobia laliophobia heliophobia phagophobia odontophobia triskaidekaphobia brontophobia haptophobia hodophobia hydrophobia cymophobia anemophobia gynophobia logophobia ergophobia helminthophobia

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REFERENCE Oxford English Minidictionary: Supplement, pages 663 & 664, sixth edition, Published by: Oxford University Press (copyright material).