Showing posts with label meaning of phobia's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meaning of phobia's. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The phobia's

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!