Phobia (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. an intense, persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, situation, or person that manifests in physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, rapid heartbeat, or shortness of breath, and that motivates avoidance behavior.
  2. an aversion toward, dislike of, or disrespect for a thing, idea, person, or group.
  1. a combining form meaning “fear,” occurring in loanwords from Greek (hydrophobia); on this model, used in the names of anxiety disorders that have the general sense “dread of, aversion toward” that specified by the initial element (agoraphobia); on the same model, used in words that name hostility toward a thing or idea, or a specific group, with the sense “antipathy toward or dislike of, disrespect or disdain for” the object or people specified by the initial element (technophobia; xenophobia).
noun
  1. an abnormal intense and irrational fear of a given situation, organism, or object
n combining form
  1. indicating an extreme abnormal fear of or aversion to
Phobia (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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