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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An abnormal fear of spiders.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An abnormal or irrational fear of spiders.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a morbid fear of spiders

Etymologies

  1. arachn(id) + -phobia.

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‘arachnophobia’ has been looked up 1282 times, added to 11 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 25.