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- noun Fear of
flying .
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Examples
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Such fears range from just a bit of anxiety to an extreme flying phobia called aviophobia that can keep a person off airplanes at any cost.
Top 10 Fears and Phobias That Really Scare People | Impact Lab 2010
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To solve my aviophobia, I saw a wacky behaviorist who had famous patients and told me my mother had ADD.
A Fear of Flying of My Very Own Molly Jong-Fast 2011
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The aviophobia he suffered from kept him on the ground, dreaming of living out his life as an old country doc.
Starfleet Academy: The Edge Rudy Josephs 2010
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The aviophobia he suffered from kept him on the ground, dreaming of living out his life as an old country doc.
Starfleet Academy: The Edge Rudy Josephs 2010
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Herewith, our pics for the worst movies to watch on airplanes, aviophobia or not.
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Recall that Dziekanski had been on terra firma for half a day before he was killed: is this a case, as I noted earlier, of "retroactive aviophobia?"
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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So now we have retroactive aviophobia, right up there with "excited delirium" as a new medical alibi for police brutality. posted by Dr.
WHITEWASH! 2008
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Recall that Dziekanski had been on terra firma for half a day before he was killed: is this a case, as I noted earlier, of "retroactive aviophobia?"
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So now we have retroactive aviophobia, right up there with "excited delirium" as a new medical alibi for police brutality. posted by Dr.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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"What you've got is generalized anxiety, not just aviophobia," she was told.
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