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What is the noun for phobia?

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phobia
  1. Psychological term for an irrational or obsessive fear of.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They need to reintegrate him back into the school so he isn't given a phobia of the place.”
      “The current classification by pathology puts word salad with word salad, obesity with obesity, and phobia with phobia.”
      “Marian has also indirectly experienced two accidents involving heights, adding to her phobia.”
phobian
  1. One who is phobic or antagonistic towards something.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I understood that our little Phobian virus was extremely virulent.”
      “If his stature in earthly measurement be taken as five feet ten inches, he would tower into the Phobian sky to a hight of over on and one-tenth miles.”
phobophobia
  1. The fear of fear; the fear of developing a phobia.
  2. Examples:
    1. “When the symptom-picture is carefully examined, it appears that the preferable name for the syndrome is phobophobia or even panicophobia.”
      “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.”
      “The culminating fear, however, the quintessence of dread, is the fear of having a fear, the dread of a dread, or phobophobia.”
phobe
  1. A person who experiences a phobia (“fear or dislike”).
  2. Examples:
    1. “By that expansive definition, courage becomes democratized and demilitarized, the property of any wallflower who manages to give the convention speech, or the math phobe who decides to take calculus.”
      “Are we adding that to your femphobe, heterophobe, religiousphobe, conservative phobe, and humanphobe list?”
      “If you are not a phobe, it is almost impossible not to stroke a cat that comes within range.”
phobist
  1. (dated) A person who has a phobia.
phobic
phobism
  1. (chiefly dated) phobia
phobists
  1. plural of phobist
phobians
  1. plural of phobian
  2. Examples:
    1. “I am anguished to see the author, a votary of Hindutva restraining himself, advising Hindutva phobians to shed off their protest.”
      “In walking he would raise the toes of his feet above the heads of the Phobians to a height of five hundred feet.”
      “The determination of the Porcupine Warriors to make amends is not far-fetched as they matched the Phobians squarely in two off-season matches.”
phobisms
  1. plural of phobism
  2. Examples:
    1. “Those pathological experiences of adults that have been and still are diagnosed as hysteria are, in the child, primarily phobisms.”
phobics
  1. plural of phobic
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This is a natural biological mechanism necessary for survival, but it is exaggerated in phobics, and the stimulus is rarely life-threatening.”
      “The only 'problem' here is in the minds of the phobics, and the answer should be to educate them rather than preserve someone else's misery.”
      “They tested the memory of spider phobics after the participants were presented with a large spider.”
phobias
  1. plural of phobia
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If the object of the fear is easy to avoid, people with phobias may not feel the need to seek treatment.”
      “Do you treat social phobias the same way you treat the other phobias, like a fear of heights, for example?”
      “Like all fears and phobias, coulrophobia is created by the unconscious mind as a protective mechanism.”
phobes
  1. plural of phobe
  2. Examples:
    1. “Then there are the phobes whose fear of birds is combined with a fear of feathers, pteronophobia.”
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