Posted on 12/05/2015 11:38:53 AM PST by Graybeard58
1. Acrophobia (heights) 2. Arachnophobia (spiders) 3. Claustrophobia (enclosed spaces) 4. Ophidiophobia (snakes) 5. Thalassophobia (deep water) 6. Necrophobia (death) 7. Glossophobia (public speaking) 8. Coulrophobia (clowns) 9. Trypanophobia (needles) 10. Entomophobia (insects)
Other phobias ranked on the list are a bit more out of the ordinary. Trypophobia, the fear of objects with irregular patterns of holes, came in eleventh, while lepidopterophobia, the fear of butterflies, ranked 18th. Perhaps the most meta of phobias, phobophobia, the fear of being struck by your fear in a totally unsuitable moment, hits the list at number 26, and pediophobia, a fear of dolls that is just plain logical to children of the ’80s who saw the movie Child’s Play at much too young an age, came in at number 28. Last on the list, at number 42, is the ironically multisyllabic fear of long words, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. (We did not make this up. hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not only a real word, but also a truly delightful song.)
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Some of these are misnamed.
1. Acrophobia (heights) Should be fear of circus stuntmen.
3. Claustrophobia (enclosed spaces) Should be fear of Santa Claus.
6. Necrophobia (death) Should be fear of giraffes.
7. Glossophobia (public speaking) Should be fear of shiny things.
10. Entomophobia (insects) This is a better word for fear of closed spaces than Claustrophobia.
Give it a name, make it a friend ...
I see nothing irrational about fear of heights.....gravity always seems to pull harder on me than most folks.
My sister has a fear of cotton balls.
I hate both clowns and mimes. They make me panicky.
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