Word: coulrophobia
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...into his act, but also the members of the audience as well. "Working with the audience is the most important part of what I do," says Larible. "We have fun together." TIME.com talked to the seventh-generation circus performer about life in the circus, his unique approach to clowning, Coulrophobia (fear of clowns), and what he'd do if he got Osama bin Laden in the ring...
...every phobia the infinitely inventive--and infinitely fearful--human mind can create, there is a word that has been coined to describe it. There's nephophobia, or fear of clouds, and coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. There's kathisophobia, fear of sitting, and kyphophobia, fear of stooping. There are xanthophobia, leukophobia and chromophobia, fear of yellow, white and colors in general. There are alektorophobia and apiphobia, fear of chickens and bees. And deep in the list, lost in the Ls, there's lutraphobia, or fear of otters--a fear that's useful, it would seem, only if you happen...
...catapedaphobia: ... jumping ceraunophobia: ... thunder chaetophobia: ... hair chemophobia: ... chemicals cherophobia: ... gaiety chionophobia: ... snow chiraptophobia: ... being touched cholerophobia: ... anger chorophobia: ... dancing chrometophobia: ... money chromophobia: ... colors chronomentrophobia: ... clocks cibophobia: ... food claustrophobia: ... confined spaces cleisiophobia: ... being locked in climacophobia: ... stairs clinophobia: ... going to bed coimetrophobia: ... cemeteries contreltophobia: ... sexual abuse coprastasophobia: ... constipation coprophobia: ... feces coulrophobia: ... clowns cremnophobia: ... precipices cryophobia: ... extreme cold crystallophobia: ... crystals, glass cyclophobia: ... bicycles
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