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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 ...
Aerophobia -- the fear of flying. 8. Claustrophobia -- the fear of confined spaces. 9. Agoraphobia -- the fear of being unable to escape an open place. 10. Brontophobia -- the fear of thunder and ...
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From technical to whimsical, prepare for your vocabulary to be stretched with 20 of the longest words in English. Plus, find out what they mean. Related: 55 Examples of Onomatopoeia
Subsequently, the word was used in Frank Scully's puzzle book Bedside Manna, after which time, members of the N.P.L. campaigned to include the word in major dictionaries. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] This 45-letter word, referred to as "p45", [ 11 ] first appeared in the 1939 supplement to the Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary, Second Edition .
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It's the fear of long words (what sick idiot made this up) and has 36 letters. TJPowerspeed75 ( talk ) 17:46, 2 October 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Because someone literally just made it up as a joke and it's not a real word in any actual dictionary.