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Word: coulrophobia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Not! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phobias From A to Z | 3/24/2001 | See Source »

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