Last night, Riff found a list of phobia names online. It made me think of a book I saw a few years ago in Bookshop Santa Cruz, The Pop-Up Book of Phobias. I know phobias can be debilitating, so I am not making fun of them or anything--it is just interesting to see all the different names. Here are some of the more creative ones, and you can follow the link to see many more:
air--anemophobia
ants--myrmecophobia
asymmetical things--asymmetriphobia
bald people--peladophobia
books--bibliophobia
bulls--taurophobia
celestial spaces--astrophobia
church--ecclesiophobia
clowns--coulrophobia
George Bush II--dubyaphobia (just kidding, that's mine)
gods--zeusophobia
gravity--barophobia
Halloween--Samhainophobia
infinity--aperiophobia
lawsuits--liticaphobia
mushrooms--mycophobia
Northern lights--auroraphobia
politicians--politicophobia
right side--dextrophobia
stories, myths, false statements--mythophobia
tyrants--tyrannophobia
undressing--dishabillophobia
ventriloquist's dummy--automatonophobia
wealth--plutophobia
x-rays--radiophobia
yellow color--xanthophobia
It makes me wonder how these names get standardized--is there a Committee for the Naming of Phobias out there?
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