Definitions for phobias

phobias pho·bi·a

Spelling: [foh-bee-uh]
IPA: /ˈfoʊ bi ə/

Phobias is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in phobias (abhiops).

Definitions for phobias

noun

  1. a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.

Origin of phobias

First recorded in 1780-90; extracted from nouns ending in -phobia

Examples for phobias

Contemporary society has gifted us with a phobia potentially as strong as acrophobia or the fear of flying: smartphone anxiety.

In cities the choice of animals which can become the object of phobia is not great.

He ran away years ago and she's gotten a phobia about people.

Or the effect may be the development of a phobia that in extreme cases may cause the death of the patient.

The phobia had been further complicated by the traumatic qualities of his experience in the Dream Shop.

Lloyd Grove talks to Toomey about Joe Sestak, his New York phobia—and Rand Paul.

The phobia is thrown before the anxiety like a fortress on the frontier.

If I'd known anything about Pietro's expedition, I'd have wrapped myself in my phobia and loved it.

She had been afraid of menstruation and of marriage, and had at this time almost a phobia for pregnancy and childbirth.

The idea of “research” settings in our popular culture tap into this phobia.

Word Value for phobias
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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