Phobias are in this book titled An Excess of Phobias and Manias linking phobia and manias for hundreds of situations; for example, ablutomania, ablutophobia, aboulomania, abulomania, acarophobia, achluophobia, acousticomania, acousticophobia, to zoomania, and zoophobia.



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laliophobia, lalophobia: A terror of talking (or of stuttering when trying to talk). An individual�s speech difficulty may be aggravated by situations that arise from anxieties or fears of self-consciousness.


A laliophobic slips during his attempt to introduce a man to an overweight woman.

Larry, this is Fattie—I mean Hattie.

What we have here is known in Latin as lapsus linguae or a “slip of the tongue”.

lalomania: A compulsion or abnormal desire to talk excessively.

large, big: macromania, megalophobia

latrophobia: An intense panic about the possibility of being robbed either at home or in public.

laughter: gelophobia

learning: opsimathiphobia

leeches: bdellophobia

left (side): levophobia, sinistrophobia

lepidophobia: A dread of butterflies.

lepraphobia, leprophobia: An excessive dread of leprosy.

letheomania: An obsessive desire for, craving for, or fascination with narcotics.



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onychotillomania: A tendency to pick at (or pull out) one�s finger, or toe, nails.

oophoromania, oothecomania, ovariomania: A psychosis associated with ovarian disease.

open places or spaces: aeroacrophobia, cenophobia, kenophobia

ophidiomania: An excessive interest in snakes or other reptiles including observing them, studying them, and having them as pets.

A maniac shows his manic obsession with reptiles (snakes) by walking on the street with his pet reptiles.

ophidiophobia, ophiciophobia, ophiophobia: An excessive terror of snakes and other reptiles.

ophresiophobia: An excessive fear of odors.

ophthalmophobia: An abnormal fear of being stared at.

opinions: allodoxaphobia

opiomania: Excessive craving for opium or opiates in general.

opsimathiphobia: The fear of learning something too late in one’s life.

opsomania: 1. A morbid desire for some particular food or sweets. 2. A longing for a particular article of diet or for highly seasoned food.



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Phobias or manias ablutomania, alektorophobia, alethophobia, algophobia, alliumphobia sample pages 7 and 20

Phobias or manias felinophobia, Gallophobia, gametophobia, gamophobia, gamomania, gamonomania, gatophobia for sample pages 84-88

Phobias or manias Hellenophobia, Hellenologophobia, hemintkhophobia, hemaphobia, haematophobia, hematophobia, hemophobia heresyphobia heresophobia, heroinomania, kleptomania, kleptophobia, klopemania sample pages 98-111

Phobias or manias pyrexeophobia, pyrexiophobia, pyromania, pyrophobia, radiophobia, ergomania sample pages 113 and 133


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