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Do you know what the phobia of long words is called?

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Some curious and, luckily, rare phobias although we are used to hearing about arachnophobia, claustrophobia or agoraphobia, there are other phobic disorders that leave us speechless. And we talk about words when we talk about hippopotamus’s quipedaliophobia, specifically long words. The phobia of long words The phobia of long words is called hippopotomonstroses quipedaliophobia, a term so […]

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Lacanophobia: the troublesome fear of vegetables

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Some of the most surprising phobias, the ones you couldn’t even imagine existed, make life quite difficult for some people. This is the case of lacanophobia or fear of vegetables, a disorder that goes beyond food preferences and that is combined with anxiety to become a very limiting problem. What is lacanophobia? Lakanophobia is the fear of vegetables, vegetables

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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: are you afraid of the number 666?

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Can you have of a number? You can, especially if it is linked to superstition and its negative symbolism has been promoted from various sociocultural fields. In our phobia we tell you everything about the fear of the number 666, a phobia with an almost unpronounceable name that is mixed with religious beliefs, numerology and superstition. Do you

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Climacophobia or batmophobia: the fear of stairs and its consequences

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Fears never cease to amaze us and we have already seen in our dictionary large number of disorders related to the most unexpected stimuli. From the phobia of stars to the fear of adolescents, including the fear of wrinkles. Any social group, object, situation, animal, or even sensation can be a stimulus to trigger terror. On this occasion,

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Are you afraid of going out? Find out what agoraphobia is

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They say that fear is free and each person is afraid of different things. This could also explain those phobias that are not understood from the outside and that are suffered from the inside to the point of limiting the lives of many people. This time, in our dictionary of phobias we treat agoraphobia, a type of anxiety disorder that

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