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Most Discworld wizards seem to suffer from it. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Octophobia sounds like a Discworld thing
Sounds like an Octopus thing. Octaphobia sounds like a Discworld thing.
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Steve Raw wrote: Octophobia
It's no weirder than Triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Steve Raw wrote: I wonder if any men suffer from
Lockiophobia. It's the fear of childbirth.
Yep, those men who think they can get pregnant.
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Steve Raw wrote: Octophobia. It's the fear of the number 8. That's almost as terrifying as a moving forklift!
I mean, if you think about it... is 8 trying to compete with infinity? Or maybe eight was having a bad day one day and fell over and now it's trying to take over the world and encompass everything. When will eight's angst be quenched? Infinity. It's coming for you.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: is 8 trying to compete with infinity?
I have severe Megalophobia. Infinity is terrifying.
It's like being in pitch-black darkness in front of a mirror.
Do you want to know something really disturbing?
What's worse than 8?
The number 7 is. It's diabolical.
Why is that? Because seven ate nine.
That's digital cannibalism. 
Now that I think of it, what is the term for fear of cannibalism?
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Steve Raw wrote: what is the term for fear of cannibalism?
Ah, it's called anthropophagusphobia. What would a phobia of long words be called?
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I mean, if you think about it... is 8 trying to compete with infinity? Or maybe eight was having a bad day one day and fell over and now it's trying to take over the world and encompass everything. When will eight's angst be quenched? Infinity. It's coming for you.
Chronomentrophobia is the fear of clocks, watches, or timepieces.
Octophobia is the fear of the number 8.
What would happen if you suffered from both phobias?
Whenever it's 8:00 you'd freak out, run around the room knocking over
furniture, foaming at the mouth, screaming uncontrollably while trying to hide
from your clock. Trauma on that level would most certainly lead to PTSD.
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What do you suppose the term would be to describe a fear of Christmas trees?
I've got nothing. Any ideas?
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Piceaphobia. It sounds all scientificky.
Jeremy Falcon
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I think Piceaphobia sounds more like a fear of fish.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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That would be ichthyophobia, but I understand how you got there from Pisces. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Piceaphobia.
That's a fear of trees, but the term for fearing Christmas trees is comprised of the two most f***ed up
"words" I have ever seen.
Get this - it's Christougenniatiko dentrophobia 
It's as though someone was banging their head on their keyboard to come up with such a term.
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Quote: I wonder if any men suffer from
Lockiophobia. It's the fear of childbirth.
Definitely. I was clueless about how to take care of a newborn. My wife's childbirth was definitely a moment of fear -- now what???
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Marc Clifton wrote: My wife's childbirth was definitely a moment of fear
Your wife is a man?
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Aibohphobia - fear of palindromes.
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Racecar! RACECAR!
Oh, the humanity!
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Fear of the word that describes the condition seems appropriate.
I am 99.99% certain that you invented that word.
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I didn't - I have known it since my youth, it was a common joke.
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Some of the influencers telling you what to eat (and not to!) seem to suffer from naclophobia.
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trønderen wrote: Some of the influencers telling you what to eat (and not to!) seem to suffer from naclophobia.
Could you imagine if you had both naclophobia AND catoptrophobia?
Whenever you enter your bathroom, it's dark, so you get scared, panic, and turn on the
light. Once you turn on the light, you see the bathroom mirror. You're overcome with sheer terror.
You quickly turn the bathroom light off. But then it goes dark again! More terror!
Turn on the light, quick! OMG, it's that ****ing mirror again!
...it must be awful 
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I must admit that I don't see the connection between naclophobia and catoptrophobila.
I could see some problem with both suffering from aibohphobia and catoptrophobila; they may have the same underlaying cause.
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Not really a phobia, but I have developed an associative disorder over the last decade or so...uncontrollable swearing triggered by my cellphone ringtone/notification alert. 
It's always someone needing something...or a bored, retired, broke brother-in-law for a daily therapy session. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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kmoorevs wrote: uncontrollable swearing triggered by my cellphone ringtone/notification alert.
What is the term for that? It could be phonophobia. Maybe telephobia?
I wonder if there is a phobia where you're terrified of your brain. What would that be called?
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The closest may be agoraphobia or fear of loud noises, though it's not fear, but dread!
Are phone addicts phony people?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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