phobismn.
/ˈfəʊbɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfoʊˌbɪz(ə)m/ rare.
A morbid fear of or aversion to something; a phobia.
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pneumatophobia1678
hydrophobia1760
aerophobia1771
panophobia1784
phobia1786
pantophobia1807
necrophobia1833
phoby1834
syphilomania1838
hippophobia1840
phonophobia1841
syphilophobia1842
scotophobia1844
astrophobia1855
sitomania1859
sitophobia1859
thanatophobia1860
Satanophobia1861
batrachophobia1863
panphobia1870
agoraphobia1871
bogyphobia1872
pathophobia1873
aquaphobia1875
toxiphobia1876
claustrophobia1879
cynophobia1879
mysophobia1879
siderodromophobia1879
phthisiophobia1883
sitiophobia1884
ochlophobia1885
sitiomania1887
acrophobia1888
zoophobia1888
leprophobia1889
nosophobia1889
pamphobia1890
bacteriophobia1894
tuberculophobia1894
taeniiphobia1897
thalassophobia1897
topophobia1899
dysmorphophobia1900
akathisia1903
cremnophobia1903
musicophobia1903
ailurophobia1905
brontophobia1905
phobism1914
arachnophobia1925
school phobia1930
coprophobia1934
mycophobia1957
arachniphobia1966
computer phobia1972
coulrophobia1997
1914 Frederick (Maryland) Post 4 June 4/1 If smugness be unlovely from a social point of view, phobism is fatal to its victim.
1917 Edinb. Rev. July 127 Germany is the home of such movements..and many other ‘philisms’ and ‘phobisms’.
1923 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 325 Tzankoff..is not credited with ‘philism’ or ‘phobism’ toward any particular country.
2001 Re: Islamophobia? in uk.politics.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 12 Oct. The only hysteria (phobism?) I see is Islamic anti-western phobia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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