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phobia
noun as in fear; dislike
Example Sentences
"Everything changed" after Paris, she said, noting that she employs up to six people to guard her house at night now, and that she started to get a "phobia of going out" because she thought people would "see me out and know my home was empty".
In my early 30s, I developed a terrible phobia of flying.
One of the favorite pseudo-intellectuals of the movement, Curtis Yarvin, sneeringly calls it "dictator phobia" to argue that government should depend on the will of the people, dismissing democracy as outdated and inefficient.
She thinks the idea of banning adverts showing models with bigger bodies is a symptom of society's "fat phobia".
That hasn’t stopped a torrent of fat phobia and often frankly hateful cultural attitudes towards weight the drugs have helped fuel, despite having benefits and risks like any other medication.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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