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A strong, persistent fear of a particular object or situation, often leading to avoidance.
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Words that belong together
- specific phobia
- develop a phobia
- phobia about flying
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Her phobia made the otherwise simple journey difficult.
He distinguished his ordinary dislike of storms from a phobia.
The interview explored how the phobia had changed her daily routines.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Singular phobia; plural phobias. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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