phobia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an intense fear of a particular object, activity, or situation that is disproportionate to its actual danger

   His phobia of harmless moths caused panic far beyond the danger they posed.

Simplified etymology

Phobia developed as an independent use of the suffix -phobia “fear,” which came through Latin from Greek. In modern terminology, especially psychology, it has also been combined with Greek and Latin elements to name particular fears.

Taken from words ending in -phobia, ultimately from Greek phobos, meaning fear.

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