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  2. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  3. The Ultimate List of 350 Surprising and Common Phobias from A-Z

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    List of Common Phobias A-Z A. 1. Ablutophobia: fear of bathing 2. Acarophobia: fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching 3. Acerophobia: fear of sourness 4. Aeronausiphobia: fear of ...

  4. Gifts with an edge: The Phobia list poster - AOL

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    This handsome 18" by 24" glossy is covered with definitions of hundreds of phobias that most of us were unaware of, or unaware such traits are considered phobias, rather than reasonable reactions ...

  5. Phobia - Wikipedia

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    A specific phobia is a marked and persistent fear of an object or situation. Specific phobias may also include fear of losing control, panicking, and fainting from an encounter with the phobia. [1] Specific phobias are defined concerning objects or situations, whereas social phobias emphasize social fear and the evaluations that might accompany ...

  6. List of manias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffix-mania denotes an obsession with something; a mania.The suffix is used in some medical terms denoting mental disorders.It has also entered standard English and is affixed to many different words to denote enthusiasm or obsession with that subject.

  7. Category:Phobias - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Phobias" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  8. Is it a fear or a phobia? How to identify — and treat — what ...

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  9. Fear of frogs - Wikipedia

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    Fear of frogs and toads is both a specific phobia, known simply as frog phobia or ranidaphobia (from Ranidae, the most widespread family of frogs), and a superstition common to the folkways of many cultures. Psychiatric specialty literature uses the simple term "fear of frogs" rather than any specialized term. [1]