- 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]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
English dictionary for students. 2013.