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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Fear or disgust of objects with repetitive patterns of small holes or protrusions Not to be confused with Trypanophobia. The holes in lotus seed heads elicit feelings of discomfort or repulsion in some people. Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of repetitive patterns or clusters of ...
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 ...
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Arachnophobia, or a fear of spiders, is a common phobia people experience. (Getty Creative stock image) (Ezra Bailey via Getty Images)
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The peak incidence for specific phobias amongst females occurs during reproduction and childrearing, possibly reflecting an evolutionary advantage. There is an additional peak in incidence, reaching nearly 1% per year, during old age in both men and women, possibly reflective of newly occurring physical conditions or adverse life events. [1]
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