Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Verbal 8 - Manias and Phobias

The Greek work PHOBIA means fear. 

1. Philopatridomania - preoccupied with extreme home sickness
2. Mythomania - preoccupied with lies
3. Oinomania - preoccupied with wine
4. Gamo mania - preoccupied with marriage
5. Kleptomania - preoccupied with stealing
6. Magalomania - preoccupied with self - greatness
7. Gynecomania - preoccupied with woman
8. Zoo mania - preoccupied with animals
9. Phagomania - preoccupied with eating
10. Pyromania - preoccupied with fire
11. Pluto mania - preoccupied with wealth


The Greek word MANIA means a compulsion or preoccupation for.
1. Thermophobia - fear of heat
2. Pedophobia - fear of children
3. Acrophobia - fear of heights
4. Chronophobia - fear of time
5. Nyctophobia - fear of night
6. Theophobia - fear of God
7. Arachibutryphobia - fear of peanut butter
8. Demophobia - fear of people
9. Entomophobia - fear of insects
10. Egrophobia - fear of work
11. Gerontophobia - fear of old people
12. Necrophobia - fear of corpses
13. Hematophobia - fear of blood
14. Arachnophobia - fear of spiders
15. Triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number thirteen

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