Thursday, January 06, 2005

Fear is good. Fear is all around.

Ever wanted a complete list of "-phobia"s ? http://www.phobialist.com/

Some common phobia we see in people around :

Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
Caligynephobia, Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
Novercaphobia, Pentheraphobia- Fear of your step-mother, mother-in-law
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law.


Some interesting phobia :

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis.
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.


As you can see, the world is full of interesting people. The number 8 and 13 must be damn scary... haha..

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