Today’s post is part of a special series here on Planet Pailly called Sciency Words. Every Friday, I bring you a new and interesting scientific word to help us all expand our scientific vocabularies. Today’s word is:
PHOBIA
I think we all have our own little, irrational fears. I’m terrified of blood. I once fainted in a biology class because we were talking about blood. I think it was something about blood cells squeezing through capillaries in single file that set me off.
I recently spent some time researching various phobias for a writing project and learned that the technical term for my irrational fear is hemophobia. Here are a few other interesting phobias.
- Pupaphobia: the fear of puppets.
- Aibohphobia: the fear of palindromes (it’s funny because aibohphobia is itself a palindrome).
- Omphalophobia: the fear of belly buttons.
- Hellenologophobia: fear of the ancient Latin and Greek languages, or fear of scientific terminology (if you are hellenologophobic, you probably shouldn’t be reading this blog).
- Sesquipedalophobia: fear of long words.
- Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: fear of the number 666.
So what’s your biggest phobia? Do they have a technical term for it? Have you ever managed to overcome your fear? Please share in the comments below.
Surgery, bloodwork, needles, basically anything to do with hospitals. Unfortunately it has not kept medical issues to a minimum. Lol
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That’s unfortunate.
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I fear people who fear belly buttons. 🙂
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Would be omphalophobophobia?
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