Fifteen million Americans live with a social phobia. The fear of long words is very specific. Some people may fear long words with many syllables, while others fear obscure words. Some people ...

In a cruel twist of fate, there’s also hippopoto-monstro-sesquipedaliophobia, which some use to describe the fear of very long words. You might think it’s a bit mean to name the phobia after ...

Phobias come in many different forms. Acrophobia is the fear of heights. Aviophobia is the fear of flying. Felinophobia is the fear of cats. Myxophobia is the fear of slime. Xyrophobia is the fear ...

or words coined for a single occasion only. These names themselves are often formed by taking a Greek prefix that represents the fear object and adding the -phobia suffix. Because of this ...

It is a lung disease caused by inhaling dust and it’s pronounced as ...