SIMPLE PHOBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does simple phobia mean? 

• SIMPLE PHOBIA (noun)
  The noun SIMPLE PHOBIA has 1 sense:

1. any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli

  Familiarity information: SIMPLE PHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIMPLE PHOBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("simple phobia" is a kind of...):

phobia; phobic disorder; phobic neurosis (an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "simple phobia"):

mysophobia (a morbid fear of dirt or contamination)

zoophobia (a morbid fear of animals)

triskaidekaphobia (a morbid fear of the number 13)

thanatophobia (a morbid fear of death)

taphephobia (a morbid fear of being buried alive)

pyrophobia (a morbid fear of fire)

photophobia (a morbid fear of light)

acousticophobia; phonophobia (a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice)

phobophobia (a morbid fear of developing a phobia)

nyctophobia (a morbid fear of night or darkness)

neophobia (a morbid fear of novelty)

acrophobia (a morbid fear of great heights)

hypnophobia (a morbid fear of falling asleep)

hydrophobia (a morbid fear of water)

cyberphobia (irrational fear of computers or technology)

cryophobia (a morbid fear of freezing)

claustrophobia (a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space)

automysophobia (a morbid fear of being dirty)

astraphobia (a morbid fear of thunder and lightning)

aquaphobia (a morbid fear of drowning)

algophobia (a morbid fear of pain)