| acarophobia |
a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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| acarophobia |
The English suffix -phobia is technically used to describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder, and commonly misused to describe hatred of a particular thing or subject. Everyday language has misused the use of this suffix as a mild or irrational fear with no serious substance; however, its origin is from areas of psychiatry which study serious phobias which disable a person's life. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarophobia
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