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1.6.2 Phobia & Mania*
phobia # mania
• (phobia)- a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or
situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it, ( ; ; ;
); The phobia is almost universal; it has permeated all classes of
society from highest to lowest. — Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep;
• (mania)- an excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze,
( ); This feeling ultimately became a kind
of mania with him. — Principal Cairns;
• Psychiatry a manifestation of bipolar disorder, characterized by profuse
and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated sexuality, gaiety, or irritability,
and decreased sleep;
phobophobia
• (phobophobia)- a morbid fear of developing a phobia;
acrophobia
• (acrophobia)- an abnormal fear of high places;
aglophobia
• (aglophobia)- an abnormal dread of pain;
photophobia^ photon
• (photophobia)- an abnormal fear of light;
• (photon)- the quantum of electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete
particle having zero mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long
lifetime;
phonophobia^ euphonic @ hear (see page 91)
• (phonophobia)- a fear of sounds, noise, and one's own voice;
• (euphonic)- agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words,
( - ); Many of our most pleasing euphonic words, especially in
the realm of music, have been given to us directly from the Italian. — How to
Speak and Write Correctly;
logophobia
• (logophobia)- an obsessive fear of words;
cacophobia^ cacophony
• (cacophobia)- the fear of ugliness;
* The words in this section are less interrelated with each other, but falls under the same category. So, instead of using the symbol
‘:’ and creating a long word chain, we decided to mark this section specially.
• (cacophony)- harsh discordance of sound; dissonance; From behind her and
within the room came a cacophony of instruments shattering and furniture
breaking. — Dirge;
callophobia^ calligraphy