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TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does triskaidekaphobia mean?
• TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA (noun)
The noun TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a morbid fear of the number 13
Familiarity information: TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A morbid fear of the number 13
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("triskaidekaphobia" is a kind of...):
simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)
Derivation:
triskaidekaphobic (suffering from triskaidekaphobia (abnormal fear of the number 13))
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