phobia

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. fear, dread, aversion, revulsion, repulsion, dislike, antipathy; acrophobia, claustrophobia, etc. See insanity.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Neurosis]

Syn. fear, dread, unreasoned fear, Angst (German); see fear 2 , neurosis .

2. [Dislike]

Syn. disgust, avoidance, aversion; see hatred 1 , 2 , resentment .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

irrational fear, obsessive fear, anxiety, dread, *hang-up, aversion, *thing, neurosis, maladjustment, horror.

WORD FIND

• alone, being: eremiophobia

• animal skin or fur: doraphobia

• animals: zoophobia

• blood: hemophobia

• blushing: erythrophobia

• bridges: gephyrophobia

• burial alive: taphephobia

• cancer: cancerphobia

• cats: ailurophobia

• children: pedophobia

• cold: psychrophobia

• confinement in enclosed space: claustrophobia

• crowds: demophobia, agoraphobia

• dark: nyctophobia

• dead bodies, death: necrophobia

• death: thanatophobia, necrophobia

• defecation: rhypophobia

• depths: bathophobia

• dirt: mysophobia

• disease: pathophobia

• dogs: cynophobia

• eating: phagophobia

• fire: pyrophobia

• flood: antlophobia

• foreigners, strangers: xenophobia

• germs: microphobia

• ghosts: phasmophobia

• heights: acrophobia

• homosexuals: homophobia

• horses: hippophobia

• insects: entomophobia

• knives: aichmophobia

• lice: pediculophobia

• marriage: gamophobia

• medicine: pharmacophobia

• men: androphobia

• mice: musophobia

• missiles: ballistophobia

• money: chrematophobia

• monsters: teratophobia

• night: nyctophobia

• noise: phonophobia, acousticophobia

• number 13: triskaidekaphobia

• ocean: thalassophobia

• old age: gerontophobia

• open spaces: agoraphobia

• pain: alophobia

• poison: toxicophobia

• precipices: cremnophobia

• responsibility: hypengyophobia

• ridicule: catagelophobia

• robbers: harpaxophobia

• sex: coitophobia, genophobia

• sharp objects: aichmophobia

• sin, committing: peccatiphobia

• sleep: hypnophobia

• snakes: ophidiophobia

• snow: chionophobia

• solitude: autophobia

• speaking: lalophobia

• spiders: arachneophobia

• stars: astrophobia

• strangers: xenophobia

• sunlight: heliophobia

• thunderstorms: astraphobia, brontophobia

• touched, being: haptephobia

• water: hydrophobia

• women: gynophobia

• work: ergophobia

see neurosis, fear, insanity, mania