phobo-, phob-, -phobia, -phobias, -phobe, -phobiac, -phobist, -phobic, -phobism, -phobous + (Greek: fear, extreme fear of; morbid, excessive, irrational fear, or terror of something or someone; however, sometimes this Greek element means a strong dislike or hatred for something or someone)
keraunothnetophobia
An abnormal fear of being hit by man-made satellites.
kinesophobia, kinetoptophobia
An excessive fear of movement. Some people who have balance problems or inner-ear disorders may have a greater fear of motion because of their reduced ability to physically adjust to it.
kleptophobia, kleptophobic, kleptophobiac; cleptophobia,
cleptophobic, cleptophobiac
1. An excessive fear of thieves or of loss through thievery.
2. Also, in psychiatry, in some cases it is an abnormal fear of becoming a kleptomaniac, cleptomaniac.
In many cities around the world, crime is so rampant that many people are justly harpaxophobic or kleptophobic; that is, excessively fearful that their homes will be invaded by thieves. As a result, extreme precautions may be taken to keep unwelcome intruders from invading their homes.
koinoniphobia
1. An irrational dread of being in a room full of people.
2. An abnormal fear of being in the company of a group of people.
kolpophobia
A horror about genitals, particularly female genitals.
koniophobia, koniphobia
An excessive concern about dust.
kopophobia
A dread of fatigue, exhaustion; or an apprehension of mental or physical exhaustion.
kymophobia, cymophobia
A panic regarding waves that may be related to a fear of motion, water, or of landscapes in which water and leaves are prominent.
kynophobia
1. An abnormal terror of someone, or something, that is assumed to have rabies.
2. A dread of dogs; such as, being attacked by them or getting some kind of illness.
kyphophobia
1. An excessive dread of stooping that may be related to fears of falling, a strong concern of injury as with the back or of dizziness which might be a result of a change in posture.
2. A dread of becoming stooped.
lachanophobia
An intense anxiety about vegetables perhaps because they have grown in what may be considered to be contaminated ground.
lalophobia
1. A terror of talking (or of stuttering when trying to talk).
2. An excessive fear of talking or speaking.
Larry, this is Fattie; I mean, Hattie!
This picture illustrates a lalophobic who has a good reason to be afraid to say the wrong thing.
latrophobia
An intense panic about the possibility of being robbed either at home or in public.
lepraphobia, leprophobia
An excessive dread of leprosy.
lethophobia
An abnormal anxiety of forgetting.
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