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Phobias
A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος,phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding despite the fear, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.
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Phobias
agrizoophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Agrizoophobia is a common term used to describe a fear of wild animals. Many people suffer from agrizoophobia, especially those who were raised in isolated urban areas. This is particularly true of ...
autophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Autophobia, is the specific phobia of isolation; a morbid fear of being egotistical, or a dread of being alone or isolated. Sufferers need not be physically alone, but believe that they are being ...
bacteriophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Bacteriophobia, or Mysophobia is a term used to describe a pathological fear of contamination and germs. Someone who has such a fear is referred to as a mysophobe. The term was introduced by Dr. ...
batrachophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Fear of amphibians. The term batrachophobia has also been recorded in a 1953 psychiatric dictionary.
chaetophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Chaetophobia is fear of hair. Sufferers fear may be associated with human hair and / or animal hair. They fear people / animals with an excess amount of hair. They may also fear the hair on their own ...
catoptrophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Catoptrophobia, or Spectrophobia (from Latin: spectrum, "ghost") is a kind of specific phobia involving a morbid fear of mirrors and one's own reflections. Catoptrophobia ( form the word catoptric ...
chemophobia
Psychiatry; Phobias
Chemophobia literally means "fear of chemicals". It is most often used to describe the assumption that "chemicals" (i.e., man-made products or artificially concentrated but naturally occurring ...