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Word: papaphobia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both by subject (railroad travel: siderodromomania; crossing bridges: gephyromania) and by name (trichorrhexomania: pinching off one's hair; typomania: writing for publication). Similarly organized is a catalog of more than 200 phobias, which only begins to suggest why psychiatrists will never lack for patients. Fear of the Pope is papaphobia; fear of failure, kakorraphiaphobia; fear of the flute, aulophobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satisfying Verbomania | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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