What is the fear of books called?

Bibliophobia
Bibliophobia
Bibliophobia is the fear or hatred of books. Such fear often arises from fear of the effect books can have on society or culture. Bibliophobia is a common cause of censorship and book burning. Bibliophobia and bibliophilia are antonyms.
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is an intense fear of books or reading. It's a type of anxiety disorder. Books are almost everywhere, and they're difficult to avoid.
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What is Athazagoraphobia?

Athazagoraphobia is a fear of forgetting someone or something, as well as a fear of being forgotten. For example, you or someone close to you may have anxiety or fear of developing Alzheimer's disease or memory loss. This might come from caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or dementia.
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What is the 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. Some individuals may feel a slight nervousness at the very thought of public speaking, while others experience full-on panic and fear.
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What is a Philophobic?

Philophobia — a fear of love — can negatively affect your ability to have meaningful relationships. A painful breakup, divorce, abandonment or rejection during childhood or adulthood may make you afraid to fall in love.
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What is the strangest phobia in the world?

Top 10 Most Bizarre Phobias
  • Optophobia: Fear of opening one's eyes. ...
  • Chorophobia: Fear of dancing. ...
  • Geliophobia: Fear of laughter. ...
  • Heliphobia: Fear of sunlight. ...
  • Deipnophobia: Fear of dinner conversations. ...
  • Neophobia: Fear of new things. ...
  • Syngenesophobia: Fear of relatives. ...
  • Ablutophobia: Fear of washing and bathing.
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What name is given to the fear of books? #fear #books #study



What is the least common phobia?

10 Least Common Phobias
  • Ephebiphobia: The fear of youths.
  • Ergasiophobia: The fear of work.
  • Optophobia: The fear of opening one's eyes.
  • Neophobia: The fear of newness.
  • Anthophobia: The fear of flowers.
  • Pteronophobia: The fear of being tickled by feathers.
  • Vestiphobia: The fear of clothing.
  • Phronemophobia: The fear of thinking.
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What are some rare fears?

Rare and Uncommon Phobias
  • Ablutophobia | Fear of bathing. ...
  • Arachibutyrophobia | Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. ...
  • Arithmophobia | Fear of math. ...
  • Chirophobia | Fear of hands. ...
  • Chloephobia | Fear of newspapers. ...
  • Globophobia (Fear of balloons) ...
  • Omphalophobia | Fear of Umbilicus (Bello Buttons)
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What is Dystychiphobia?

Dystychiphobia is a fear of accidents. With this specific phobia, you may feel anxious when you think about or see a place where you fear an accident may happen. Many people with this fear have had past traumatic experiences with accidents.
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What is Pteromerhanophobia?

Pteromerhanophobia (or fear of flying)
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What is a Amaxophobia?

Amaxophobia (Fear of Driving) Amaxophobia (also called hamaxophobia) makes you feel anxious or fearful when you drive or ride in a vehicle, such as a car, bus or plane. With it, you have a fear of driving and may also get anxious being a passenger.
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What is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary — and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words. Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia. The American Psychiatric Association doesn't officially recognize this phobia.
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What is Melissophobia?

Definition of melissophobia

: intense fear or dislike of bees : apiphobia I understand my son's fear.
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What causes Chronophobia?

Healthcare providers believe chronophobia and other phobias result from a mix of environmental factors and genetics. Being incarcerated, having a terminal illness or surviving a traumatic event can lead to chronophobia. People who have anxiety problems and mental illness are more likely to develop a phobia.
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What is the number one fear in the world 2020?

Economic hardship, societal anxiety, increased online activity, and renewed debate over the role of police stoked fears of criminal activity. Mass shootings, which decreased during pandemic lockdowns, were still the most feared crime and the third overall fear.
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What are the Top 5 fears of humans?

Key points. There are only five basic fears, out of which almost all of our other so-called fears are manufactured. These fears include extinction, mutilation, loss of autonomy, separation, and ego death.
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What phobias exist?

Common phobias include:
  • fear of spiders, or arachnophobia.
  • fear of flying in an airplane, or aviophobia.
  • fear of elevators, or elevatophobia.
  • fear of heights, or acrophobia.
  • fear of enclosed rooms, or claustrophobia.
  • fear of crowded public places, or agoraphobia.
  • fear of embarrassment, or katagelophobia.
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Do I have apiphobia?

feeling an immediate intense fear or anxiety when you think about or see bees. knowing that the anxiety you're feeling is unreasonable, but being unable to control it. going out of your way to avoid locations or situations that may bring you into contact with bees.
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Is there a phobia for everything?

Pantophobia refers to a widespread fear of everything. Pantophobia is no longer an official diagnosis. But people do experience extreme anxiety triggered by many different situations and objects.
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What is Sesquipedalophobia?

sesquipedalophobia (uncountable) Fear of long words.
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What is Logizomechanophobia?

Cyberphobia is an extreme fear of computers. Someone with computer phobia has an intense fear of using a computer or being around computers. They may avoid going places (like an office or school) where computers might be. Providers also call this phobia logizomechanophobia.
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What is Sesquipedalianism?

1 : having many syllables : long sesquipedalian terms. 2 : given to or characterized by the use of long words a sesquipedalian television commentator.
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Is there a fear of pickles?

Tristadekaphobia - An Intense Fear Of Pickles.
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What are the 10 most common fears?

Phobias: The ten most common fears people hold
  • Social phobias. ...
  • Agoraphobia: fear of open spaces. ...
  • Acrophobia: fear of heights. ...
  • Pteromerhanophobia: fear of flying. ...
  • Claustrophobia: fear of enclosed spaces. ...
  • Entomophobia: fear of insects. ...
  • Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes. ...
  • Cynophobia: fear of dogs.
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Do I have Spheksophobia?

Explained simply, Spheksophobia is the persistent fear of wasps. The word is derived from Greek spheco meaning wasps and Phobos the 'Greek God of fear' or dread. In Spheksophobia, the sufferer experiences an extreme panic attack at the sight or even thought of wasps.
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Do bees sting if you touch them?

Yes. It happens. Bees do sting, occasionally. However, they usually only sting if they feel threatened.
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