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89. Coulrophobia: fear of clowns 90. Cryophobia: fear of ice 91. Crystallophobia: fear of crystals 92. Cyberphobia: fear of computers 93. Cyclophobia: fear of bicycles 94. Cymophobia: fear of wave ...
Yes, it's true: The fear of clowns is so strong that there's even a phobia called coulrophobia — an extreme or irrational fear of clowns or clown images, signs of which can appear in children as ...
About 5 per cent of respondents say they are ‘extremely afraid’ of clowns
2016 clown sightings – Sightings of people in evil clown costumes in the United States, Canada, and 18 other countries were dismissed as a case of mass hysteria, stating that a fear of clowns (which is common in children and adults) may be an underlying cause. [61]
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
A clown in fetish fashion at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in 2008. Coulrophilia is a paraphilia toward clowns. [1] There is an associated subculture dedicated to it, and coulrophilia may intersect with coulrophobia, the fear of clowns.
Somewhere along the way, clowns went from cheery characters — often the highlight event at kids’ birthday parties — to becoming the stuff of nightmares.
A group of people in evil clown costumes at a PDC 2008 party at Universal Studios. The evil clown, also known as the creepy clown, scary clown or killer clown (if their character revolves around murder), is a subversion of the traditional comic clown character, in which the playful trope is instead depicted in a more disturbing nature through the use of horror elements and dark humor.