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)
brontephobia, brontophobia; tonitrophobia
An exaggerated fear of thunder and thunderstorms.
cacohydrophobia
1. A fear of drinking or of being contaminated in some way with bad water.
2. An abnormal fear of sewer water.
cacorrhaphiaphobia
A fear of failure; a dread of bad planning.
calciphobia
In botany, the inability of some plants to grow in lime-rich soil.
calligyniaphobia
An abnormal fear of beautiful women.
capnophobia, capnophobiac, capnomania, capnomaniac: coined by John G. Robertson
These words were all created for John G. Robertson's book,
An Excess of Phobias and Manias, published in 2003, because they were not available in any dictionaries or other known sources to express these conditions.
See the fumi- unit for other words (fumimania, fumimaniac, fumiphobia, fumiphobiac) that were also brought into existence by John Robertson.
See the pages at this Capnophobia-Fumiphobia, Part 1 for pages about the smoking problems in our global societies.
Smoking is a shocking thing—blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
—Samuel Johnson, lexicographer, (1709-1784)
Believing that we are doing something worthwhile when we are smoking is the first illusion of tobacco.
—Anonymous
capnophobia; also, fumiphobia
1. An intense hatred, or fear, of smoking or having anyone around who is polluting the air in the immediate vicinity with tobacco smoke; whether from cigarettes, cigars, pipe, or from any similar process of smoke distribution.
2. A fear of smoke exhausts from motor vehicles which are blamed for causing so much pollution in the air.
Here is a capnophobia link, Part 1 of 4, with images and information for a better understanding of capnophobiacs and why they hate smoking as related to the dangerous practice of smokers.
capnophobiac (s), capnophobiacs (pl)
Anyone or those, who have a dread, or extreme hatred, of smoking and being around people who are doing it.
cardiophobia
An excessive fear of heart disease.
carnophobia
An excessive fear of, or aversion to, a meat diet or the mere sight of raw or cooked meat.
catagelophobia, categelophobia
An excessive fear of being ridiculed or of being “put down” by someone. This is no doubt based on having a “low self-esteem”.
catapedaphobia
An abnormal fear of jumping (from both high and low places).
categelophobia
A strong antipathy to being ridiculed or criticized.
cathisophobia
An excessive fear of sitting down.
cenophobia
An abnormal fear of empty rooms, barren spaces, or of large spaces.
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