Now, a phobia is an extreme or irrational fear of something. That something could be anything. For Example, Acrophobia is the fear of heights. Remember, a phobia is the extreme fear of something.

The phobia I just told you about doesn’t seem that crazy, but there are some crazy ones out there. In this post, I’m going to talk about some of the weirder ones.

Allodoxaphobia–The fear of opinions.

Imagine if you had this phobia. You would absolutely fear everybody! You would probably never talk to anybody with this phobia because they’ll give their opinion about the subject.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

This one is long. Really long. In fact, it’s the longest phobia I know, and it means the fear of long words. Ironic, isn’t it?

Helminthophobia-The fear of being infested with worms

I find this one just ridiculous. I’ve never heard of anybody ever infested with worms. Would you just never go outside onto the dirt or eat an apple?

Phobophobia

I want you to guess the meaning of this one. Have you guessed yet? Now? Good.

Phobophobia is the fear of phobias. Now just sit and think about that for a second. If you learned you were diagnosed with this, you would pretty much be scared of yourself until the end of time. You would know you have a phobia, and you would be scared of it.

You can find even more phobias here if you wish, but that’s enough for now.

I’m sorry I keep forgetting to post a Word of the Week, but make sure to be here for the next Word of the Week. See ya!