phobias Synonyms

phobias Meaning

phobias

exaggerated fear of, intolerance or aversion for, an exaggerated and often disabling fear usually inexplicable to the subject and having sometimes a logical but usually an illogical or symbolic object, class of objects, or situation compare compulsion, obsession, an unreasonable, abnormal, and lasting fear of something, an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation

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exaggerated fear of, intolerance or aversion for, an exaggerated and often disabling fear usually inexplicable to the subject and having sometimes a logical but

worries, terrors, frights, dreads, anxieties,panics, scares, agitations, jitters, alarums

confidences, assurances, self-confidences, guts, aplombs,nerves, braveries, darings, courages,intrepidities

My fear of spiders, known as arachnophobia, is so severe that I tremble at the thought of them.

Acrophobia, the irrational fear of heights, causes me to avoid skyscrapers and Ferris wheels.

Trypophobia, a phobia of holes, makes me shudder at the sight of honeycombs and sponges.

Claustrophobia, the fear of enclosed spaces, makes me feel trapped in elevators and small rooms.