Thursday, August 23, 2007

Phobia

A phobia is an irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. (Source: Wikipedia).

A few uncommon phobias.

  1. Amathophobia: fear of dust
  2. Barophobia: fear of gravity
  3. Cacophobia: fear of ugliness
  4. Cyberphobia: fear of working with computers
  5. Octophobia: fear of the figure 8
  6. Ophthalmophobia: fear of being stared at
  7. Optophobia: fear of opening one's eyes
  8. Panophobia: scared of everything
  9. Phasmophobia: fear of ghosts
  10. Phobophobia: fear of fear
  11. Plutophobia: fear of wealth
  12. Satanophobia: fear of satan

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