Dictionary

Chapter 9

This months Dictionary article is all about Phobias. Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being. Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman. Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money. Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school. Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge. Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting. Homichlophobia- Fear of fog. Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors. Judeophobia- Fear of Jews. Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms. Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth. Meningitophobia- Fear of brain disease. Numerophobia- Fear of numbers. Ornithophobia- Fear of birds. Pogonophobia- Fear of beards. Quadraphobia- fear of the number four. Russophobia- Fear of Russians. Selenophobia- Fear of the moon. Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting. Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating. Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father. Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages. Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy