pantophobia

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Usage: Once his pantophobia started acting up, Willy found it necessary to cancel the lecture he was scheduled to give on Friday the 13th entitled: "The Care and Feeding of Your Black Cat."

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  • Usage: Once his pantophobia started acting up, Willy found it necessary to cancel the lecture he was scheduled to give on Friday the 13th entitled: "The Care and Feeding of Your Black Cat." —  no.stupid.answers
  • - Panophobia (pantophobia) is the fear of everything. —  The Composed Gentleman
  • (1876-1941): author of short stories and novels, pantophobia —  no.stupid.answers
  • And here, listen to this, 'batophobia, the fear that high things will fall, atrophobia, fear of thunder and lightning, pantophobia, the fear of every thing and every one' .... —  The Branding Iron
  • 'Agoraphobia' is the fear of crossing an open space, 'batophobia' is the fear that high things will fall, 'siderophobia' is the fear of thunder and lightning, 'pathophobia' is the fear of disease, whilst 'pantophobia' is the fear of everything and everybody. —  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek πᾶς (παντ-), all, + -φοβία, from φέβεσθαι, fear.
 

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