Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Morbid dread of being alarmed.
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- noun The
fear offear .
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- noun a morbid fear of developing a phobia
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Examples
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December 13th, 2007 at 10: 33 am jokerswild says: phobophobia is the fear of phobias. weird, huh?
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You see, it was not until some years later that I first heard about "phobophobia," but, I confess, I thought it meant fear of stuttering.
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was admonishing America against "phobophobia," or, the fear of being afraid.
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Rather than being affected by environmental stimuli, sufferers of phobophobia are set off by the internal sensations of fear itself, which is further exacerbated by experiencing those exact same sensations.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2009
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was warning us against phobophobia, the fear of being afraid.
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I have phobophobia: I’m deathly afraid of being afraid of things.
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Google hits on the term (hits include both with and without the hyphen), a negligible number (compare 1,490,000 for homophobia, 34,900 for phobophobia (fear of fear), 29,200 for heterophobia (fear of heterosexuals), 14,900 for gamophobia
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Thunkful 2010
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Google hits on the term (hits include both with and without the hyphen), a negligible number (compare 1,490,000 for homophobia, 34,900 for phobophobia (fear of fear), 29,200 for heterophobia (fear of heterosexuals), 14,900 for gamophobia
nuxiy commented on the word phobophobia
My favourite phobia :D
March 17, 2009
uselessness commented on the word phobophobia
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
November 25, 2009
yarb commented on the word phobophobia
I hate this word. I'm phobophobophobic.
November 25, 2009
bilby commented on the word phobophobia
But if the original fear was good enough, surely it spreads by and of itself without any secondary 'fear of' effects. You guys really need to get yourself some decent quality fear and give it a burl.
November 25, 2009