One of the most fascinating words are different phobia's or fear of something.These phobia words have always caught my attention. English has a word for almost all kinds of fear.
Some interesting phobia's are listed below:
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth ( WOW!)
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing in front of someone.
Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors
Kainolophobia or Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty.
Usually phobia words are coined from root words and suffixing "phobia".
Ex
Altophobia : fear of heights
[Alt is the root word for heights]
Euphobia : phobia of hearing good things
[Eu :means good saying , praise ...like in Euphism]
Some words like Ombraphobia donot originate from root words.
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on
There is a website in which the author has accumulated all the different phobia's, which I found to be vey interesting. Click here to see the website.
Its exciting to know how many phobia's we all have.Check them out.
Happy Phobia hunting!
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