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-phobia
(combining form.) fear, hatred, or dread of ______.
Ex. Francophobia = fear of the French or France. Claustrophobia = fear of enclosed rooms or narrow places.

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phobia, noun.
a persistent, abnormal, or irrational fear of a certain thing or group of things.
Ex. a phobia of water. She has a phobia about snakes. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, thought that in phobia the thing feared served