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THE FEAR AND PHOBIA LIBRARY
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  • Introduction to Phobia and Fear
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  • Defining the Meaning of Mindfulness
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​DEFINING THE FEAR VOCABULARY
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​PONDERING THE PHOBIA - FEAR COLLECTION
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  • Part 1: A Puzzling Perplexity of Phobias - the common, ordinary, unusual, grotesque, & catastrophic
  • Part 2: Syllabus of the Humanities of Fear - lists on knowledge, art, language, music and theology
  • Part 3: Promoting a Political Phobia Ideology - lists on politics, law and order, criminal justice and defense
  • Part 4: Scientific Studies of Fear - lists on scientific studies, chemistry, physics, math and technology.
  • Part 5: Scary Universe by Mother Nature - lists on the universe, planets and by Mother Nature
  • ​Part 6: Phantom Parade of People Phobias - lists on people and their bodies, health, senses, sensations, emotions, love and sex
  • Part 7: Lifestyle Items on the Menu of Fear - the events, places, items and objects in life and at home
  • Part 8: Freaky Funhouse of Fantastical Fear - freaky funhouse of the fantastically entertaining, recreational, the fun, delusional and the fictional​​ ​
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​Disclaimer: Collection includes phobias included and not included in the psychological diagnostic manual. List includes fictional phobias. Phobias defined for linguistic purposes only. If you have a phobia, please consult a medical professional. Note some phobias may appear in more than one collection. Trigger warning.
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FEAR OF TECH

Computers 101 - a hard drive full of phobias in technology, computers, digital media, telephones and the various means of communication.

The most common symptoms of fear of technology include self doubt, and avoidance behavior. You might constantly think about technology and about using it.
  • Reluctance or refusal to use computers or preferring to withdraw cash from the human cashier in banks rather than using the “hole-in-the-wall” ATM machine.
  • Resisting any automatic processes
  • Being unwilling to change to new computer/software systems
  • Criticizing technological changes and implementations
  • Saying: “I have managed for so long without technology, I can get by”…

COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY FEARS
Technophobia - fear of technology
Prosophobia – fear of progress

Cyberphobia - fear of computers
  • Bijixphobia - fear of laptops computers
  • Pingbophobia - fear of tablet computers
  • Zhuojphobia - fear of desktop computers
  • Ordclaviphobia – fear of computer keyboards
  • Osouriphobia – fear of computer mice
  • Printerphobia – fear of printers
  • Hellenologophobia - fear of tech terminology

Cyanimagomortiphobia – fear of the blue screen of death
  • Datalossophobia – fear of losing your data
  • Formaspassphobia - fear of forgetting your master password.
  • Foransequephobia - fear of forgetting the answer to your secret question.
  • Expensivetechophobia - fear of paying for an expensive technology you have little or no knowledge about

Arachtophobia – fear of artificial intelligence
  • Kifnaphobia – fear of drones
  • Robophobia – fear of robots

FEAR OF THE WEB
Interophobia - fear of the internet.

Forumphobia – fear of Internet forums
  • Controversusrogatiophobia – fear of questionable questions
  • Doxophobia – fear of expressing opinions
  • Euphobia - fear of good news
  • Kakosphobia - fear of bad news
  • Katagelophobia – fear of ridicule
  • Logocrisiaphobia – fear of censorship
  • Memephobia – fear of internet memes
  • Sociaphobia - fear of being judged

WEB ACTIVITY
Googlephobia – fear of search engines
Gouwuchephobia – fear of shopping carts
  • Destirpephobia – fear of finding the item you are looking for but it is out of stock
Nointernetophobia - fear of not having access to the internet
Enterophobia - fear of the hitting the send button on an email.
Expiraphobia - fear of forgetting to renew a domain name and it expires.

HANGING ON THE WEBSITE 404
Microsoftphobia – fear of Microsoft
  • Earthviulaphobia – fear of Google Earth
Amazonphobia – fear of Amazon
  • EBayphobia – fear of eBay
Facebookphobia – fear of Facebook
  • Twitterphobia – fear of Twitter
Wikipediaphobia – fear of Wikipedia
  • Wikiaphobia – fear of Wikia
  • Wikihowphobia – fear of wikiHow
  • Wikimediaphobia – fear of Wikimedia
  • Wiktionaryphobia – fear of Wiktionary
Urbandictionaryphobia – fear of Urban Dictionary
Wikiphobia – fear of wikis

FEAR OF THE SELFIE GENERATION
Pictophobia – fear of pictures
  • Cameraphobia – fear of cameras
  • Chrompadaphobia – fear of long photo shoots
  • Ipovlopsychophobia – fear of having one’s photograph taken
  • Photographophobia – fear of photography
  • Selfiephobia - hating how you look in a selfie
Applogrophinophobia – fear of being addicted to Internet porn
  • Captophobia – fear of being caught

FEAR OF UNKNOWN CALLERS
Telephonophobia - fear of the telephone
  • Drosmartoiphobia - fear of dropping your cellphone down the toilet.
  • Nomophobia - fear of being without a mobile device
  • Phonophobia - fear of telephones, voices, or speaking aloud​
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  • Beautifully Obscure Words
    • Tracing the Etymology of a Word
    • Typing the Typeface of Writing Types
    • WORD LIST: Feelings and Emotions >
      • FEATURE: Our Capacity for Love
    • FEATURED WORD LIST COLLECTIONS
    • BEAUTIFUL WORD LISTS
    • WORD LIST: Translating Your World >
      • Index of Untranslatable Words (Alphabetical)
  • WORD LIST: Rolling Log of Beautiful Words
  • WORD LIST: The Languages From Around the World
    • FEATURE: Words of the World >
      • DEFINING LOVE with a French Romance >
        • Fantastic Flair of Everyday French - Nature
  • IT’S ABOUT TIME! Website Housekeeping
    • FULL SITE INDEX - SITEMAP - All the Beautiful Words
    • A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL WORDS - My Vocabulary Books and Blogs >
      • Download - The Logophile Lexicon - Words About Words
  • WORD LIST: People, Places and Things
    • To Sleep Perchance to Dream
  • WRITING SYSTEMS