Phobias

Phobias

A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος,phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding despite the fear, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.

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Xenophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Xenophobia is defined as the "hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture"

Apiphobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Apiphobia (from Latin apis for "honey bee"), melissophobia (from Greek melissa for "honeybee" and occasionally misspelt as melissaphobia), is a fear of bees and a kind of specific phobia.

Nomophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact

Nosophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Nosophobia is a specific phobia, an irrational fear of contracting a disease, from Greek "nosos" for "disease" (as the 1913 Webster's Dictionary put it, "morbid dread of a disease"). Primary fears of ...