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What is phobophobia?

What is phobophobia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The fear of fear; the fear of developing a phobia.
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of long words and just try to pronounce it, while panophobia is a fear of everything and phobophobia is a fear of phobias.
The most unfortunate phobia to have is phobophobia being afraid of being afraid.
If he does not wash before a meal, he has a neurotic fear of displaying the same complex, and you tell him he has phobophobia.
When the symptom-picture is carefully examined, it appears that the preferable name for the syndrome is phobophobia or even panicophobia.
The culminating fear, however, the quintessence of dread, is the fear of having a fear, the dread of a dread, or phobophobia.

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