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  • noun Fear of flying.

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Examples

  • Such fears range from just a bit of anxiety to an extreme flying phobia called aviophobia that can keep a person off airplanes at any cost.

    Top 10 Fears and Phobias That Really Scare People | Impact Lab 2010

  • To solve my aviophobia, I saw a wacky behaviorist who had famous patients and told me my mother had ADD.

    A Fear of Flying of My Very Own Molly Jong-Fast 2011

  • The aviophobia he suffered from kept him on the ground, dreaming of living out his life as an old country doc.

    Starfleet Academy: The Edge Rudy Josephs 2010

  • The aviophobia he suffered from kept him on the ground, dreaming of living out his life as an old country doc.

    Starfleet Academy: The Edge Rudy Josephs 2010

  • Herewith, our pics for the worst movies to watch on airplanes, aviophobia or not.

    WORST Movies To Watch On An Airplane (VIDEO, POLL) 2010

  • Recall that Dziekanski had been on terra firma for half a day before he was killed: is this a case, as I noted earlier, of "retroactive aviophobia?"

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • So now we have retroactive aviophobia, right up there with "excited delirium" as a new medical alibi for police brutality. posted by Dr.

    WHITEWASH! 2008

  • Recall that Dziekanski had been on terra firma for half a day before he was killed: is this a case, as I noted earlier, of "retroactive aviophobia?"

    The Mounties who got their man 2008

  • So now we have retroactive aviophobia, right up there with "excited delirium" as a new medical alibi for police brutality. posted by Dr.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • "What you've got is generalized anxiety, not just aviophobia," she was told.

    Fear Of Flying? Take The Train. 2007

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