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phobia

See also: -phobia

English

Noun

phobia ‎(plural phobias or phobiæ)

Psychological term for an irrational or obsessive fear of.
I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.

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See Category:en:Phobias.

Translations

irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety

Afrikaans: fobie
Albanian: fobi
Arabic: رُهَاب m ‎(ruhāb)
Armenian: ֆոբիա ‎(fobia)
Azeri: fobiya (az)
Belarusian: фо́бія f ‎(fóbija)
Bulgarian: фо́бия (bg) f ‎(fóbija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 恐懼症 (zh), 恐惧症 (zh) ‎(kǒngjùzhèng)
Czech: fobie (cs) f
Danish: fobi c
Dutch: fobie (nl)
Estonian: foobia (et)
Finnish: fobia (fi)
French: phobie (fr) f
Georgian: შიში ‎(šiši), ფობია (ka) ‎(pobia)
German: Phobie (de) f
Greek: φοβία (el) f ‎(fovía)
Hebrew: פוביה (he)
Hindi: भीति (hi) f ‎(bhīti)
Hungarian: fóbia (hu)
Irish: fóibe f
Italian: fobia (it) f
Japanese: 恐怖症 ‎(きょうふしょう, kyōfushō)

Korean: 공포증 (ko) ‎(gongpojeung)
Latin: phobia f
Latvian: fobija f
Lithuanian: fobija f
Macedonian: фо́бија f ‎(fóbija)
Maori: mae, mate mae
Marathi: भीति f ‎(bhīti)
Norwegian: fobi (no) m
Persian: ترس (fa) ‎(tars), هراس (fa) ‎(harâs)
Polish: fobia (pl) f
Portuguese: fobia (pt) f
Romanian: fobie (ro)
Russian: фо́бия (ru) f ‎(fóbija), боя́знь (ru) f ‎(bojáznʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: фобија f

Roman: fobija (sh) f
Slovak: fóbia f
Slovene: fobija f
Spanish: fobia (es) f
Swedish: fobi (sv) c, skräck (sv) c
Tagalog: takot
Telugu: భయము (te) ‎(bhayamu)
Turkish: fobi (tr)
Ukrainian: фо́бія f ‎(fóbija)
Welsh: ffobia (cy)

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Definition 2024

phobia

phobia

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