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Fear that forgot to check if the danger was real before moving in forever.
means An intense, persistent, often irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that's out of proportion to any actual threat.
from From Greek phobos, meaning 'fear' or 'panic' — itself tied to Phobos, the god personifying fear, who rode into battle alongside his father Ares. The suffix '-phobia' got bolted onto countless roots starting in the 19th century, when doctors began cataloguing fears like specimens, giving us a whole taxonomy from claustrophobia to arachnophobia.
- origin
- Greek phobos, god of fear and panic
- clinical threshold
- irrational fear causing real avoidance or distress
- most common type
- specific phobias, like heights or spiders
- treatment irony
- exposure to the fear usually cures it