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  • Phobic disorders may be the most common for of anxiety.
    phobic = extreme and unreasonable fears of things
  • I stopped letting anyone take pictures of me a while ago. I guess you could call it a phobia.  (source)
    phobia = extreme and unreasonable fear of something
  • The obsessive: glove-wearing, germ-phobic, bundled year round with scarves, twitching and racked with compulsions.  (source)
    phobic = fear (an unreasonable fear, in this case, of germs)
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  • She also had a deep phobia of blood, but I'd wait and let the brilliant detectives figure that out.  (source)
    phobia = extreme and unreasonable fear
  • If the biochemists were able to demonstrate the physical workings of neuroses (phobias, or difficulties getting pleasure from life), if they could pinpoint the chemicals and impulses and interbrain conversations and information exchanges that constitute these feelings, would the psychoanalysts pack up their ids and egos and retire from the field?  (source)
    phobias = extreme and unreasonable fears of things
  • Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.  (source)
    phobic = related to an extreme and unreasonable fear of something
  • Gran had this theory behind my phobia.  (source)
    phobia = extreme and unreasonable fear of something
  • "You're going to work where?" was her comment; point being, as it unfolded, that AnooYoo was a collection of cesspool denizens who existed for no other reason than to prey on the phobias and void the bank accounts of the anxious and the gullible.†  (source)
    phobias = extreme and unreasonable fears of things
  • Scarlett had always been phobic of stethoscopes and lab coats and needed moral support, so I'd been pardoned from my most recent grounding, for (1) lying about being with Macon and (2) breaking curfew.†  (source)
    phobic = related to an extreme and unreasonable fear of something
  • The only drawback to the use of cancer cells is the phobia and ignorance that surrounds the word cancer.  (source)
    phobia = unreasonable fear
  • It was when anthropophobia set in, when he was made uneasy by people who walked too close to him, that, sagely viewing his list and seeing how many phobias were now checked, he permitted himself to rest.†  (source)
    phobias = extreme and unreasonable fears of things
  • There was no point dwelling on my unreasoning horror of a large public wedding—enclosed spaces, claustrophobia, sudden movements, phobic triggers everywhere,  (source)
    phobic = unreasonable fear
  • Since then, he'd suffered a haunting phobia of enclosed spaces—elevators, subways, squash courts.†  (source)
    phobia = extreme and unreasonable fear of something
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