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)


microbiophobia, microphobia, mikrophobia
A fanatical distress or fear of microbes and bacteria.
misophobia
A fanatical dread of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt and related germs.
mnemophobia
An unreasonable apprehension, or abnormal fear, of memories.
molysomophobia, molysmophobia
An uncommon terror of infection or contamination.
monologophobia
The fanatical concern that a writer has of using the same word more than once in three lines.
monopathophobia
An abnormal panic of having sickness in a specified part of the body or some definite disease.
monophobia
An extreme angst of being left alone or of desolate places. Also a fear of just one thing (whatever that might be).
motorphobia
A fear of motor vehicles.
muriphobia, murophobia, musophobia
An uncontrolled fear of mice. Some people who fear mice have fainted or run at the sight of one, or at least jumped away to avoid contact with it.
musicophobia
A disproportionate concern about or fear of music.
myrmecophobia, myrmecophobe, myrmecophoby
1. An excessive fear or hatred of ants. Quite often, those who have an abnormal fear of ants are also phobic about other tiny insects. Some people who have abnormal fears of dirt or contamination may also fear the presence of ants near food or in the kitchen. If they have obsessive-compulsive disorder, they may continually wash kitchen counters and the inside of their refrigerators as a ritual to give themselves a sense of assurance that no ants or other sources of contamination are present.
2. In biology, a reference to organisms that repel ants or termites.
mythophobia
1. An unreasonable apprehension about making false statements or of untrue stories; an unnatural fear of incorrectness.
2. A pathological fear of stories or myths; disbelief in everything one is told.
myxophobia
An irrational dread of slime.
nebulaphobia
An abnormal fear of fog or clouds.
necrophobia
An irrational dread of death, dead bodies, or corpses.

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