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Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014), by Bernie Hobbs. The phobia was created to mock name bias, a form of discrimination studied by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago ...
This handsome 18" by 24" glossy is covered with definitions of hundreds of phobias that most of us were unaware of, or unaware such traits are considered phobias, rather than reasonable reactions ...
Pages in category "Phobias" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Catherine Delahaye/Getty Images. 1. Dahlia. This female name comes from the late summer-blooming flower, so perhaps a good choice for a girl born in August or September. It’s a variant of the ...
Andromania – human sexual behaviour and desire towards males in females (andro- (Greek) meaning man, men, male or masculine) Can be replaced by hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania, hysteromania or aphrodisiomania. Anglomania – England and a passion or obsession with the English (i.e. anglophile) See also anglophobia.
Many parents are on the hunt for rare and unusual baby names these days. If you grew up as "Jennifer S." or "Chris W. — no, not that Chris W., the other one," you might be especially inclined to ...
Also, Nesse, psychiatrist Isaac Marks, and evolutionary biologist George C. Williams wrote that people with systematically deficient responses to adaptive phobias (e.g. ophidiophobia, arachnophobia, basophobia) are more temperamentally careless and more likely to receive unintentional injuries that are potentially fatal and have proposed that ...
200 rare vintage baby names for boys and girls: Names that are classic, cool and unusual.