phobia
Up to 25% of people are needle-phobic and hate the idea of injections.
Only two reporters were allowed into the media-phobic country.
The elegant, long skirts give the miniskirt-phobic reason to dance.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings of dislike and hatred
abhorrence
abomination
anathema
animosity
animus
dislike
distaste
distaste for someone/something
distastefully
enmity
loathing
misandrist
misandry
misanthrope
misanthropy
self-hating
self-hatred
self-loathing
sore point
technophobe

Examples of phobic

phobic
However, we identified 31 % of subjects describing symptoms of phobic travel anxiety at 2 months and 37 % at 3 months.
Hypochondriacal patients scored significantly higher than anxiety disorder patients, including both social phobic patients and panic disorder patients as well as normal controls.
Behaviors incompatible with fear then become associated with the continuously present, phobic stimuli, thus overlaying and blocking expression of the fear.
We regret that there is no psychophysiological dissociation for physiologically phobic dream psychologists to take comfort in!
Future studies should explore more closely the long-term development of phobic anxiety in burn patients.
Styles of decision-making and probability appraisal in selected obsessional and phobic patients.
Functional neuroanatomy of visually elicited simple phobic fear : additional data and theoretical analysis.
Disappearance of residual, subclinical social phobic avoidance appears to be the target of treatment.
If the last feature is absent, the patient would not be diagnosed as a social phobic.
Such probabilities increased in the absence of a personality disorder, of residual social phobic avoidance after exposure, and of concurrent use of benzodiazepines.
What releases him from it is the phobic person's awareness of the limits of phobia: of the disproportion between stimulus and response.
The importance of examining extreme scores is seen in a treatment study of phobic adults.
Phobic subjects reported higher rates of contact with their general practitioners, but only a minority were receiving any form of treatment for their anxiety.
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