phobia - Definition from the PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY topic - MEDICINE

Topic: PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY

Date:	1700-1800
Language:	Modern Latin
Origin:	Late Latin -phobia, from Greek, from phobos 'fear'

phobia
noun

pho‧bi‧a

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[uncountable and countable]

MP a strong unreasonable fear of something

phobia about

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Owen has a phobia about snakes.

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Some children suffer from school phobia.

—phobic adjective

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