Medicine & BodyGreek → English
Phobia
An extreme or irrational fear of something.
The Greek roots
φόβος
phóbos
fear
Literally: “a fear”
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The story of the word
Phóbos was fear personified in myth. Today it tags a whole family of fears, from claustrophobia to arachnophobia.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
His phobia of heights kept him off the balcony.