Meaning of treiskaidekaphobia | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Our own⟳ feeling about thirteen, especially when joined with Friday, has added another to the long list of phobias; treiskaidekaphobia, or "fear of the number⟳ thirteen" (some of the other phobias are the well-known claustro-, acro-, and agora-, fear of being closed in, of heights, of open⟳ spaces, respectively; less known are ailurophobia, "fear of cats," iatrophobia, "fear of doctors," nucleomitotophobia,^([sic]) "fear of atomic bombs," mageiricophobia, "fear of having to cook⟳," and, recalling FDR, phobophobia, "fear of fear itself.")”

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