What is Leukophobia?

Leukophobia is an intense fear of the color white. It's a specific phobia, which occurs when you face or think of a particular situation. Leukophobia may stem from other mental health issues, including: Repetitive thoughts and urges: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
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What is Xanthophobia?

Xanthophobia, fear of the color yellow.
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What is a Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Noun. hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (uncountable) (humorous) The fear of long words.
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What is the fear of being pale?

Leukophobia often takes the form of a fixation on pale skin. Those with the phobia may make implausible assumptions such as paleness necessarily representing ill health or a ghost.
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What is the fear of death called?

Thanatophobia is an extreme fear of death or the dying process. You might be scared of your own death or the death of a loved one. Psychotherapy can help most people overcome this disorder. Appointments 866.588.2264. Request an Appointment.
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Leukophobia-Fear of the Color White



What is the smallest phobia?

Trypophobia brings on feelings of disgust or fear when you see patterns with lots of holes. Sunflowers, honeycombs, sponges and seedy fruits can cause this response. Trypophobia is a type of anxiety disorder. Most people don't have a true fear of holes.
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What is the fear of Panphobia?

Noun. panphobia (uncountable) The fear of everything. (by confusion) Panophobia, a condition of groundless fears. (neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people and/or pansexuality.
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What is Cryophobia?

Definitions of cryophobia. a morbid fear of freezing. type of: simple phobia. any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli.
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What is the 2nd longest phobia name?

2. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) Ironically, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest work in the dictionary and is the name for a fear of long words!
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What word takes 3 hours to say?

The longest English word

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
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What fear is Encavmaphobia?

from Phobia-Wiki: Encavmaphobia (also known as Burnmophobia) is the fear of getting burned, a branch of Traumatophobia (the fear of injury) and Pyrophobia (the fear of fire). The fear often develop after a person is severly burned.
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Is Bananaphobia real?

It is very rare and uncommon, but the fear of bananas or bananaphobia does exist. ... According to this news report, a woman had been scared of bananas all her life, so much so that she could not stand being in the same room as them without feeling nauseated each time. ' See, see you lifelong doubters.
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What is Glossophobia?

Glossophobia, or a fear of public speaking, is a very common phobia and one that is believed to affect up to 75% of the population.
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Why do people have Xylophobia?

Causes. The exact causes of xylophobia are not known, but a number of different factors may play a role. Genetics, family history, and experiences are all believed to contribute to the development and onset of specific phobias.
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What is Sidonglobophobia?

Noun. sidonglobophobia (uncountable) Sensory phobia of cotton or cotton balls.
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Can you have 2 phobias?

Phobias can develop around any object or situation. Some people may experience multiple phobias.
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Is trypophobia skin a real thing?

So-called “trypophobia skin” is not a real skin disease, but trypophobia may be a common reaction to skin diseases that can present with clusters of holes, bumps, or nodules. Skin that has holes, bumps, or nodules and trypophobic patterns is also commonly seen on characters in movies, television shows, and video games.
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What are the top 3 phobias?

So what are the 5 most common phobias?
  • 1) Arachnophobia – fear of spiders. ...
  • 2) Ophidiophobia – fear of snakes. ...
  • 3) Acrophobia – fear of heights. ...
  • 4) Agoraphobia – fear of situations where escape is difficult. ...
  • 5) Cynophobia – fear of dogs.
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What is Sesquipedalophobia?

Noun. sesquipedalophobia (uncountable) Fear of long words.
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What word has all 26 letters?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. My favorite pangram is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.”
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What word is 1 89 819 letters?

The word is 189,819 letters long. It's actually the name of a giant protein called Titin. Proteins are usually named by mashing-up the names of the chemicals making them. And since Titin is the largest protein ever discovered, its name had to be equally as large.
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What is the 189 000 letter word?

1. methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine. You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.
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