Claustrophobia and other words ending in –phobia: definitions
By Baldmichael Theresoluteprotector’sson
I thought something quick as the weather is lovely and I really should spend more time outdoors and I don’t suffer from agoraphobia!
And please note you have nothing to fear from this article except, as has been said, fear itself. The meanings of the words may occasionally be dictionary definitions, otherwise they are my interpretations. There may be words you haven’t seen before.
Words selected from this link.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-phobia
Claustrophobia – fear of enclosed spaces. Father Christmas suffers this when entering dwellings
Klaustrophobia – fear of Klaus Schwab. He is not someone to have to your front door, let along down your chimney
Agoraphobia – fear of the Egyptian sun god
Algoreaphobia – fear of rising sea levels
Photophobia – fear of the ends of the feet of one’s enemy
Negrophobia – fear of garden plants not coming up, for example
Homophobia – fear of domestic dwellings
Omophobia – fear of a brand of washing up powder
Acrophobia – fear of the black bird of the corvus family
P.S. if more meanings of words are your forte, whether you are forty, for tea or for anything, please try these petit fours. With a cup of tea or coffee etc.
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P.P.S. If you need something to deal with fear then there’s this.
G'day BM, I've recently had a real phobia about getting in elevators. I'm now taking steps to avoid them. 👍🇦🇺
And of course, now we have purported "phobias" against sexual deviancy, when really, we're not "afraid" of it. It's just that we don't like it around us or our children. Can't we just have our OWN preference to not have this crap shoved down our throats? But now it's "hate crime" to suggest we don't want our kids sexualized by sexually deviant strangers.