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Do You Know What All These Phobias Mean?

How Well Do You Know Your Phobias?

Androphobia is an excessive fear and avoidance of anyone identifying as masculine, also known as men.

Caetano Veloso defines Chaetophobia as the fear of someone who has lots of hair on their body.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a massive word that means… fear of big words.

Although it might be a word that scares people who are afraid of big words, automatonophobia is also the fear of dolls.

Yes, there are people out there who are afraid of beautiful women, and this fear is called caligynephobia.

If you have a voluminous beard, you might want to avoid getting too close to someone with pogonophobia.

People with ablutophobia are afraid of bathing.

This word is used to describe the fear of places with a lot of people.

Someone who can’t handle seeing blood is someone with hematophobia. It’s sometimes referred to as homophobia.

You almost certainly know someone who freaks out when they’re high up, a fear called acrophobia.

The fear or avoidance of ants is called myrmecophobia.

Many years before the invention of the selfie, there were plenty of people who feared light.

While pyromaniacs try to set anything and everything on fire, people with pyrophobia try to avoid fire at any cost.

You didn't do well, but I suppose that's probably a good thing, since it could conceivably mean that you're not afraid of anything. Good/bad job!

Hopefully you did well on this quiz because you're smart, and not because you suffer from these phobias. That would be unfortunate.

You're a master of fear, and you know exactly what scares people the most. Either that or you're just pretty good with Latin. Either way, you did a great job.

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