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phobias
/ˈfoʊbiəz/
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What does phobias mean?
noun
- plural of phobia
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfoʊbiəz/
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Sometimes, instead of the indiscriminate fear of worry, there are localized fears, called phobias, which creep or spring into a man's thoughts and render him miserable.
Reason finally became helpless in the grip of her phobias.
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It is a peculiarity of women that they are not easily set off by such alarms, that they do not fall readily into such facile tumults and phobias.
Throughout all civilization, the phobias and manias of war have thrown the people back into the toils of the priest, and that church which tortured Galileo in the dungeons of the Inquisition, and shot Ferrier beneath the walls of the fortress of Montjuich, is rejoicing in a "rebirth of religion".
The fear-maladies, or "phobias," as they are called, are examples of this class, and, belonging properly under temporary mental derangements, the same as hallucinations or delusions, will be spoken of in another chapter.