Meaning of phobophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

The fear of fear; the fear of developing a phobia.

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“When Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was describing phobophobia -- the fear of being afraid.”

“In particular, the rulemakers – here judges who craft free speech doctrine – may themselves display a pathological fear of succumbing to pathological fear, a kind of phobophobia.”

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