Meaning of pantaphobia | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“There is a manifestation of morbid fear which is not uncommon, and to which we might perhaps give⟳ the term pantaphobia, or fear of everything; all responsibility, every attempt⟳ to make⟳ a change⟳ of movement being the result⟳ of dread and alarm.”

“Not only the intercurrent episodes, but even sleeplessness, pantaphobia, vanity, a strange mingling of the somatic symptoms of the psycho-neuroses, with the psychical phenomena of paranoia, color this picture with such liveliness that the opinion expressed by this celebrated ethnographer, that “savages resemble⟳ the melancholic and nervous types,” appears most appropriate.”

“Even the attribution of psychopathic constitution is often too loosely made; as for instance in the case of chronic pantaphobia which I presented some years ago before this Association. In spite of a heavily charged heredity this man remained free of psychopathy and fear after twelve years of the most strenuous life.”

“In the meantime the doctor makes arrangements with a young test⟳ pilot, who has romantic leanings towards the young lady, to help⟳ him keep⟳ her there. This is done by means of a fake case of pantaphobia.”

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