Vocab: Phobias

Aloha Everyone,

Time for some more phobias. See if you can identify any root words in these phobias, and put them down in the Comments section. If you can come up with any more words using the roots that you have identified it would be better still.

Pogonophobia - Fear of beards.

Philemaphobia - Fear of kissing.

Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises.

Peladophobia - Fear of bald people.
[I hope you guys don't have this phobia. ;-)]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
How appropriate that the fear of long words is slightly longer than usual.

Ciao

Vocab: Phobias

Hola Friends,

Here is another post on phobias. Some interesting ones this time too. Why don’t you take a look at these phobias and figure out what the root words are and what they mean. Then you could try and arrive at the other words that have originated from those roots. Put down your thoughts in the Comments section.

Anyway here are the phobias:

Erythrophobia - Fear of blushing.

Brontophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.

Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish.

Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking.

Ambulophobia - Fear of walking

Ciao

Vocab: Phobias

Good evening Friends,

All of us have some or the other phobia and trust me there are a lot of these phobias going around. Some of these phobias might not even be mentioned in the dictionaries that one uses, but trust me for the people who are suffering from them they are all too real.

But what exactly is a phobia? A Phobia is “A persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.” It is not just fear, it is an irrational fear.

Let’s take a look at a few unusual phobias around. Also while reading about the phobias see if you can identify the root word (and a few other words that originate from those root words) and mention the same in the “Comments” section.

Here goes:

Deipnophobia - Fear of dining and dinner conversation.

Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school.

Pantophobia - Fear of everything.

Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark or of the night.

And finally,
Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women.
I wonder what the cure for this one is!!!


On that slightly disturbing note,

Good night