Monday, July 12, 2004

Afraid? You should be. Some real phobias.

Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.
Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Automatonophobia - Fear of any inanimate object that represents a sentient being, eg. statues, dummies, robots, etc.
Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting.
Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of painful bowel movements.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
Klismaphobia - Fear of enemas.
Macrophobia - Fear of long waits.
Mikatikoindicaphobia - Fear of the NRIs (Non-Resident Indians).
Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes.
Panophobia, Pantophobia - Fear of everything.
Pogonophobia - Fear of beards.
Rhabdophobia - Fear of being severely punished or beaten with a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.
Tremophobia - Fear of trembling.
Walloonphobia - Fear of the Walloons.
Ymophobia - Fear of contrariety.

Of course all of these are neologisms. To make up your own fear all you need is the greek root and a -phobia.
For example:

Sinistroranidaphobia - Fear of left handed frogs.
Philosopeladophobia - Fear of philosophical bald people.
Octolepronyctohylophobia - Fear of eight lepers in a dark wooded area.
Chorovitricocleithrophobia - Fear of dancing with your stepfather in an enclosed space.
Scelerorussophobia - Fear of being burgled by a russian.
Nostonipponophobia - Fear of returning home and finding a japanese person there.
Hypengyodentophobia - Fear of responsible dentists.
Ankyloephebiphobia - Fear of arthritic teenagers.
Ostracononeirogmophobia - Fear of shellfish appearing in your wet dreams.

and my fear:

Tyrannodontopoliticophobia - Fear of being ruled by corrupt politians with bad teeth.

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