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To: Rambi who wrote (10443)4/24/2002 7:04:59 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (3) of 21057
 
Think of all the x-phobia words you can think of besides homophobia.

( lifefirst.com will help if you want to see a lot of them)

Would you say someone has acrophobia if he just has a dislike of or a mild aversion to heights? Or that someone has claustrophobia if they just don't like closed in spaces? Would an inexperienced young person, who is a little nervous about sex be a genophobe? Does Yasser Arafat suffer from Judeophobia? (Actually maybe he does, I understand he is a bit paranoid, ok change that to Bashar Assad) Does someone who thinks stealing is immoral have Kleptophobia?

m-w.com

Defines phobia as

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

Tim
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