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Definitions for Phobia

[1] a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
[2] a combining form meaning “fear,” occurring in loanwords from Greek (hydrophobia ); on this model, used in the names of mental disorders that have the general sense “dread of, aversion toward” that specified by the initial element: agoraphobia.
[3] psychiatry an abnormal intense and irrational fear of a given situation, organism, or object
[4] indicating an extreme abnormal fear of or aversion to acrophobia ; claustrophobia

Words related to Phobia

distaste, anxiety, hang-up, resentment, loathing, dread, aversion, obsession, revulsion, horror, neurosis, thing, fear, repulsion, disgust, detestation, terror, hatred, avoidance, irrationality

Words nearby Phobia

phlyctenule, phlyctenulosis, phm., phnom penh, pho, phobia, phobic, phobophobia, phobos, phocaea, phocine

Origin of Phobia

-phobia< Latin < Greek, equivalent to -phob(os ) -phobe + -ia -ia

Word origin for Phobia

-phobiavia Latin from Greek, from phobos fear

Synonyms for Phobia

anxiety, aversion, distaste, dread, hang-up, loathing, obsession, resentment, revulsion, avoidance, awe, detestation, disgust, dislike, fear, hatred, horror, irrationality, neurosis, repulsion, terror, thing, thing about