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Gerascophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias. Gerascophobia may be based on a number of different anxieties related to the ageing process from the loss of physical youth and beauty, the loss of independence and mobility, to worry about the onset of sickness and the decline of physical and mental health. [4]
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 ...
Gerontophobia is the hatred or fear of the elderly, or a fear of age-related self-degeneration (similar to gerascophobia). The term comes from the Greek γέρων – gerōn, "old man" [1] and φόβος – phobos, "fear". [2]
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Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ... erigeron, gerascophobia, geriatric, geriatrics, gerontocracy, gerontology, ...
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I believe there should be some more symptoms listed and that there should be some examples of cases that are involved with Gerascophobia. (Kyokoyama 06:19, 30 September 2011 (UTC)) Done ––Chanc20190325 00:46, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
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