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Title	phobia
Text	Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary pho·bia \\ˈfō-bē-ə\\ noun ETYMOLOGY -phobia DATE 1786 : an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation English Etymology phobia 1786, "fear, horror, aversion," Mod.L., abstracted from compounds in -phobia, from Gk. -phobia, from phobos "fear," originally "flight" (still the only sense in Homer), but it became the common word for "fear" via the notion of "panic, fright" (cf.phobein "put to flight, frighten"), from PIE base *bhegw- "to run" (cf. Lith. begu "to flee," O.C.S. begu "flight," bezati "to flee, run," O.N. bekkr "a stream"). Psychological sense attested by 1895; phobic (adj.) is from 1897. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 phobia pho·bia / 5fEubiE; NAmE 5fou- / noun1. a strong unreasonable fear of sth 恐怖症,恐惧症(无名的极度恐惧): He has a phobia about flying. 他对飞行有恐惧症。 2. -phobia (in nouns) a strong unreasonable fear or hatred of a particular thing (构成名词)对…的恐惧症: claustrophobia 幽闭恐惧症 xenophobia 恐外症 ⇨ compare -philia Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of English phobia noun ADJ. cat, water, etc. VERB + PHOBIA have, suffer from PHOBIA + NOUN sufferer PREP. ~ about/of sth He has a phobia about snakes. OLT phobia noun ⇨ fear Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged pho·bia \ˈfōbēə\ noun (-s) Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin -phobia fear of something, from Greek, from phobos fear, flight + -ia -y; akin to Greek phebesthai to flee, be frightened, Lithuanian bėgti to run, flee : an exaggerated and often disabling fear usually inexplicable to the subject, having occasionally a logical but usually an illogical or symbolic object, and serving to protect the ego against anxiety arising from unexpressed aggressive impulses — compare compulsion , obsession

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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

pho·bia

\\ˈfō-bē-ə\\ noun

ETYMOLOGY -phobia

DATE 1786

: an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation

English Etymology

phobia

1786, "fear, horror, aversion," Mod.L., abstracted from compounds in -phobia, from Gk. -phobia, from phobos "fear," originally "flight" (still the only sense in Homer), but it became the common word for "fear" via the notion of "panic, fright" (cf.phobein "put to flight, frighten"), from PIE base *bhegw- "to run" (cf. Lith. begu "to flee," O.C.S. begu "flight," bezati "to flee, run," O.N. bekkr "a stream"). Psychological sense attested by 1895; phobic (adj.) is from 1897.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7

phobia

pho·bia / 5fEubiE; NAmE 5fou- / noun1. a strong unreasonable fear of sth

恐怖症,恐惧症(无名的极度恐惧):

He has a phobia about flying.

他对飞行有恐惧症。

2. -phobia (in nouns) a strong unreasonable fear or hatred of a particular thing

(构成名词)对…的恐惧症:

claustrophobia

幽闭恐惧症

xenophobia

恐外症

⇨ compare

-philia

Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English

Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of English

phobia

noun

ADJ. cat, water, etc.

VERB + PHOBIA have, suffer from

PHOBIA + NOUN sufferer

PREP. ~ about/of sth He has a phobia about snakes.

OLT

phobia noun

⇨ fear

Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged

pho·bia

\ˈfōbēə\ noun

(-s)

Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin -phobia fear of something, from Greek, from phobos fear, flight + -ia -y; akin to Greek phebesthai to flee, be frightened, Lithuanian bėgti to run, flee

: an exaggerated and often disabling fear usually inexplicable to the subject, having occasionally a logical but usually an illogical or symbolic object, and serving to protect the ego against anxiety arising from unexpressed aggressive impulses — compare

compulsion

obsession

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