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phobia|ˈfəʊbɪə|
Also 9 phoby.
[The prec. suffix used as a separate word.]
Fear, horror, or aversion, esp. of a morbid character. In Psychol., an abnormal and irrational fear or dread which is caused by a particular object or circumstance.
1786Columbian Mag. Nov. 110/1, I shall begin, by defining Phobia in the present instance, to be a fear of an imaginary evil, or an undue fear of a real one. 1801Coleridge in Sir H. Davy's Rem. (1858) 92, I..have a perfect phobia of inns and coffee-houses. 1875W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 409 Against management by phobies, either Tory phobies or popular phobies. 1887,1895[see -phobia]. 1897tr. T. Ribot's Psychol. of Emotions ii. ii. 215 We can easily see that many phobias come under this category. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 157 Specific means..to dissipate the ‘phobias’ or the obsessions. 1907S. A. K. Wilson tr. Meige & Feindel's Tics iv. 88 Prominent among the mental anomalies of the subjects of tic are found different sorts of phobia. 1909A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Sel. Papers on Hysteria v. 123 Thus far the processes are the same in hysteria, in phobias and obsessions, but from now on their ways part. Ibid. 127 Thus..freed anxiety, the sexual origin of which can not be recalled, attaches itself to the common primary phobias of man. 1954R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung's Devel. of Personality in Coll. Wks. XVII. iv. 74 The latter [sc. the mother] projected all her phobias onto the child. 1974E. B. McNeil Psychol. of being Human ix. 232 Phobias are symptoms issuing from unacceptable basic urges that have been repressed from consciousness. When repression is effective, phobia symptoms need not exist. 1978New York 3 Apr. 85/2 (Advt.), Swim-o-phobia? Cure it forever. Our private lessons by professional instructors will have you phobia-free and swimming in no time.
So ˈphobist nonce-wd., one who has a horror of or morbid aversion to anything.
1883Church Quarterly XV. 394 Men, who refuse to give up their liberty at the dictation of ‘phobists’ of any denomination. |