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A couple years ago I looked up phobophilia in several dictionaries to confirm that it meant what I thought it meant, only to find that I had apparently just coined it, because I couldn't find any dictionary definitions, and only one GHit, in an academic paper translated from modern Greek.
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Unlike limerence, phobophilia has a dead obvious etymology, which is why I assumed it was already in use.
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In the absence of actual threats, a phobophiliac will imagine or even engender a threat sufficient to gratify their phobophilia.
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