单词 | phobia |
释义 | phobia From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Psychology, psychiatryphobiapho‧bi‧a /ˈfəʊbiə $ ˈfoʊ-/ noun [countable, uncountable]MPFRIGHTENEDa strong unreasonable fear of somethingphobia abouthas a phobia about snakes. Owen suffer from school phobia. Some children ► see thesaurus at fear —phobic adjectiveExamples from the Corpusphobia• Individuals with specific fears and phobias can learn to become unafraid.• It took Shapiro just three months to overcome 25 years of bridge phobia.• What is the cause of cat phobia?• Patients with depression, phobia, and obsessions were helped the most, patients with schizophrenia not as reliably.• He had provided a father-confessor figure to absolve the youngster's sins and absorb his phobias.• It shows itself in powerful emotions that surprise us, in the richness of dream images, and in phobias and prejudices.• But just as with other phobias, one of the best therapies is to just go ahead and do it.• Some people's phobia about cancer is so extreme that they can not bring themselves to think about it seriously. phobia about• I have a real phobia about going to places where I don't know anyone. Psychology, psychiatry-phobia-phobia /fəʊbiə $ foʊ-/ suffix [in nouns]1 technicalMPFRIGHTENED a strong unreasonable dislike or fear of something, which may be part of a mental illness (=fear of being in a small enclosed space) claustrophobia (=fear of water) aquaphobia 2 HATEa dislike or hatred of something (=a dislike of English or British things) Anglophobia Origin phobia (1700-1800) Modern Latin Late Latin -phobia, from Greek, from phobos “fear” -phobia Late Latin → PHOBIA |
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