The Best of the Grammar Diva

Originally Published 2-11-2013

 

Veering just a little bit away from grammar this time to talk about words. After all, we are called bigwords101!

Phobias

 Phobia means fear. It is both a word unto itself and a common suffix. Some of the more common phobia words are claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces), arachnophobia (fear of spiders), and agoraphobia (fear of the marketplace, or the fear of leaving home). However, the types of phobia stretch into the thousands; it seems as if there is a phobia for almost everything. Here are some of the more interesting phobias:

Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions

Anablephobia- Fear of looking up

Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

Aulophobia- Fear of flutes

Bathophobia- Fear of depth

Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman

Chorophobia- Fear of dancing

Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks

Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news

Geniophobia- Fear of chins

Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down

Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body

Nomatophobia- Fear of names

Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons

Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public

Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives

Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat

and my favorite….

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words

To see a complete list of phobias, check out this website!

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GRAMMAR DIVA NEWS

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