Examples
“December 13th, 2007 at 10: 33 am jokerswild says: phobophobia is the fear of phobias. weird, huh?”
“You see, it was not until some years later that I first heard about "phobophobia," but, I confess, I thought it meant fear of stuttering.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was admonishing America against "phobophobia," or, the fear of being afraid.”
“Rather than being affected by environmental stimuli, sufferers of phobophobia are set off by the internal sensations of fear itself, which is further exacerbated by experiencing those exact same sensations.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was warning us against phobophobia, the fear of being afraid.”
“I have phobophobia: I’m deathly afraid of being afraid of things.”
“Google hits on the term (hits include both with and without the hyphen), a negligible number (compare 1,490,000 for homophobia, 34,900 for phobophobia (fear of fear), 29,200 for heterophobia (fear of heterosexuals), 14,900 for gamophobia”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phobophobia’.
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Hobs
hob, hobby, hobbyhorse, hobnob, hobanob, hob and nob, Hob Collingwood, hobble, Calvin and Hobbes, hobbledygee, Hobby-lanthorn, hobbit and 41 more...
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phobias
acrophobia, aerophobia, agoraphobia, astrophobia, androphobia, claustrophobia, aquaphobia, genophobia, homophobia, haemophobia, monophobia, pyrophobia and 20 more...
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List of Silly Words
A list of silly, strange, and generally unusual words.
decemnovenarianize, mammothrept, spaneria, spanogyny, lexiphanic, allorgasmia, marcous, leighster, psaphonic, exsibiliation, paralian, phobophobia and 24 more...
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-phobia
extreme or irrational fear or dislike
arachnophobia, photophobia, claustrophobia, phobophobia, ailurophobia, agrophobia, acrophobia, agoraphobia, anthropophobia, aerophobia, acarophobia, anthrophobia and 26 more...
bilby But if the original fear was good enough, surely it spreads by and of itself without any secondary 'fear of' effects. You guys really need to get yourself some decent quality fear and give it a burl. Nov 25, 2009
yarb I hate this word. I'm phobophobophobic. Nov 24, 2009
uselessness "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt Nov 24, 2009
nuxiy My favourite phobia :D Mar 17, 2009