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Phobo-phobia

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The oldies are always the best. Here are just a few of my favourite psychologically recognised phobias:

Agateophobia: Fear of insanity
Allodoxaphobia: Fear of opinions
Apeirophobia: Fear of infinity
Barophobia: Fear of gravity
Blennophobia: Fear of slime
Chronophobia: Fear of time
Decidophobia: Fear of making decisions
Eleutherophobia: Fear of freedom
Epistemophobia: Fear of knowledge
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: Fear of long words
Sesquipedalophobia: Fear of long words
Japanophobia: Fear of Japan or the Japanese
Levophobia: Fear of things to the left side of the body
Linonophobia: Fear of string
Lutraphobia: Fear of otters
Uranophobia: Fear of heaven
Papaphobia: Fear of the Pope
Philosophobia: Fear of philosophy
Symbolophobia: Fear of symbolism
Theophobia: Fear of gods or religion
Xerophobia: Fear of dryness
I'm off, the internet is far too devoid of moisture for my xerophobic liking. But before I do, here is my own, home-brewed phobia:

Megateratophobia: Fear of Huge Entities
What's your phobia?

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Blogger Homer Jay said...

Coprophobia. No I'm not kidding. When my son's diaper exceeded it's holding capacity, I had an actual nervous breakdown because I couldn't figure out how to get his clothes off without cutting them off and without getting poop on his face or hands. Thank God my wife was there to save me.

October 21, 2005 8:15 AM    

Blogger Danieru said...

i'm just scared of children. what would that be, paedophobia?

October 23, 2005 4:56 AM    

Blogger David Riewe said...

Nice blog, here is another list of phobias

http://www.push-button-online-income.com/phobia

October 25, 2005 1:32 PM    

Anonymous eazy said...

Fear of the number 666:
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

October 27, 2005 9:41 AM    


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