Phobias
Phobias
Phobias
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In many cases specialists prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive
terms, see, e.g., personality disorders, anxiety disorders, avoidant personality
disorder, love-shyness.
Animal phobias
Non-psychological conditions
Biology, chemistry
The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or anti-
demographic sentiment, such as Europhobia, Francophobia, Hispanophobia,
and Indophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix "anti-" already exists
(e.g., Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism). Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms
such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia.