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irrational fear

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meanings of irrationaland fear


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irrational
adjective
uk /ɪˈræʃ.ən.əl/ us /ɪˈræʃ.ən.əl/
not using reason or ...
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fear
noun[C or U]
uk /fɪər/ us /fɪr/
an unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful, or bad that is happening or ...
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Examples of irrational fear


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We defined an irrationalfear as the presence of such a fear that was judged not to be associated with any objective behavioural impact on the respondent.
R3.1), indicate that theirs is a somewhat irrationalfear of all processes which seem to entail some semblance of mental processing.
They also suffer from irrationalfear and outbreaks of terror about something called the golden scenario.
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It is not an idle or irrationalfear.
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What we have got to cure is the fear, sometimes the irrationalfear, in the minds of men that they are to become unemployed.
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He said that one phobia affecting many people was the irrationalfear of a dog or cat.
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This may be an irrationalfear, but we cannot legislate it out of existence.
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Sometimes it is because of a wholly irrationalfear.
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In my opinion, there are two main pitfalls to be avoided in today's extremely controversial field of nuclear power: blind faith and irrationalfear.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
As regards qualified majority voting, there is something of an irrationalfear in this country.
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We have an irrationalfear that eating meat might cause such a condition.
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And we need more information, too, on radiation, because that, at the moment, is the ultimate fear of mankind, and quite an irrationalfear.
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Some people have expressed the irrationalfear that the new clause's amendment to the local government tax regime would set a precedent for other industries seeking to widen the benefit.
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It is particularly important to set out that record, because it reduces the sometimes irrational fear of crime on the part of people who use the underground system.
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Employers, and indeed the public in general, tend to have an irrationalfear of contracting the disease, even though the circumstances may present no risk at all.
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I think the basic diffculty is that we are dealing with an emotive, irrationalfear, and where emotion is involved reason does not work as a counter-argument.
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But that is an irrationalfear.
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Those who do nt may suffer from what is commonly known as coasterphobia, the extreme, irrationalfear of roller coasters.
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He has an irrationalfear of clowns, but is able to develop a certain degree of tolerance towards them.
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