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Phobias are in this book titled An Excess of Phobias and Manias linking phobia and manias for hundreds of situations; for example, ablutomania, ablutophobia, aboulomania, abulomania, acarophobia, achluophobia, acousticomania, acousticophobia, to zoomania, and zoophobia.

An Excess of Phobias and Manias, Page 154

Hydrophobia, hydrophobophobia, cynophobia, kynophobia: Fear of having rabies.

Hydrophobia: Also, fear of water.

Cynophobia/kynophobia: Also, fear of dogs.

Ethnomania: Extreme enthusiasm for racial autonomy.

Ombrophobia/pluviophobia: Fear of rain.

Pyrexeophobia/pyrexiophobia: An excessive fear of having a fever probably because of its relation to some illness.

Pyromania: Insanity characterized by an impulse to set things on fire; a mania for incendiarism.

A pyromaniac is enjoying his latest arson.

Statistics show there are three ages when men misbehave:
young, old, and middle.

-Anonymous

There’s nothing consistent about human behavior
except its tendency to drift toward evil.

-Anonymous

When adults behave like children, we call them juvenile;
when children behave like adults, we call them delinquents.

-Anonymous

Pyrophobia: 1. An intense fear of fire, watching fires, or that one will start fires. 2. In biology, intolerant of the soil conditions produced by fire; a reference to a plant that is unable to re-establish itself following a fire.

Radiophobia: An excessive fear of x-rays.

Siderodromophobia: Fear of railroads and/or trains.



An Excess of Phobias and Manias, Page 180


This is a scanned copy of one of the pages from the book.

An ergomaniac is shown working right up to the last.


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Phobias or manias ablutomania, alektorophobia, alethophobia, algophobia, alliumphobia sample pages 7 and 20

Phobias or manias felinophobia, Gallophobia, gametophobia, gamophobia, gamomania, gamonomania, gatophobia for sample pages 84-88

Phobias or manias Hellenophobia, Hellenologophobia, hemintkhophobia, hemaphobia, haematophobia, hematophobia, hemophobia heresyphobia heresophobia, heroinomania, kleptomania, kleptophobia, klopemania sample pages 98-111

Phobias or manias laliophobia, lalophobia, lolomania, latrophobia, lepidophobia, lepraphobia, leprophobia, letheomania, onychotillomania, oophoromania, oothecomania, ovariomania, ophidiomania, ophidiophobia, ophiciophobia, ophiophobia, opheresiophobia, ophtkhalmophobia, opiomania, opsimathiphobia, opsomania sample pages 113 and 133