The fear of long words or hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is derived from the greek words “hippopotamine”, “monstr” and “sesquippedali” meaning something very large, horrifying and a measurement of a foot and half length respectively. Most people often think this phobia is fictional but it is real. The human mind is capable of developing fears and phobias towards … Read more
Trypophobia, sometimes misspelled as “tripophobia” is also known as the hole phobia or holes phobia as you may want it. Whichever you call it, it is the irrational fear of clustered holes. It is discovered now however that it is not necessarily holes alone but most features that are clustered together and have irregular patterns … Read more
Acrophobia, the fear of heights is an abnormally persistent fear of high places. Abnormal because in most cases, while everyone else would feel safe looking down a skyscraper from the inside, a person with acrophobia would already be perhaps shaking while barely taking a peep even though risks of falling off are almost impossible from … Read more
The fear of spiders, arachnophobia is equally a really common phobia, particularly to females. It is gotten from two Greek words ‘arachine’ meaning spiders and ‘phobia’ meaning fear, thus the name – arachnophobia, the fear of spiders. People often confuse or just call spiders insects but it is to be noted that spiders are not … Read more
Astraphobia is the irrational fear of thunder and lightning. Thunder is a very scary loud rumble while lightning itself is very dangerous, nobody wants to get struck. Among these reasons are the causes of this phobia. Other alternative names for this phobia include brontophobia, tonitrophobia or keraunophobia. I know right? Who seriously comes up with … Read more
Nomophobia is the fear of being without or losing our phone. It is a very recent type of phobia caused by the growing population of phone users worldwide unlike many other phobias was gotten from two English words; NOMobilePHOBIA in full. Causes of the fear of being without a mobile phone phobia One of the … Read more
Fear of snakes phobia, ophidiophobia is one of the most common phobias known worldwide. Rating number 2 in the world’s top 20 phobias, individuals having ophidiophobia may live life without anxiety as it is rare to come across snakes just anywhere except for a few who live in remote areas and farms or work in … Read more
The fear of holes, trypophobia is a type of phobia where the patient is afraid or rather irritated by clustered and irregular pattern of holes. I, along with 15% of the world’s population are said to be trypophobic, so you’re not alone!(if that makes you feel any better). Trypophobia was rumored to have been identified … Read more