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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing: xenophobia.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Used to form nouns meaning fear of a specific thing.
  2. n. Used to form nouns meaning hate, born out of fear, directed towards a particular type of person.
  3. n. Controversially used to form nouns meaning political or religious organizations or viewpoints concerned with limiting or restraining a specific thing or idea.

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin, from Latin, from Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobia) (see ὑδροφοβία (hydrophobia, "fear of water")), from φόβος (phobos, "fear"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin, from Greek -phobiā, from phobos, fear; see bhegw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. -philia

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  1. phobophobia
  1. social phobia
  1. simple phobia
  1. phobic
  1. decondition

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Words tagged ‘-phobia’

  1. algophobia
  1. disposophobia
  1. phobia

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