Opus 2014-202: New Terms: Theophobia
I was reading in Proverbs and came across one of the references to the fear of the Lord. My mind went on a tangent. I thought of a term that gets thrown around a lot, “homophobic”, and began to wonder why we have not heard much about theophobia, the fear of God. I thought I was onto something new.
Wikipedia has an entire category on words ending in “phobia.” Theophobia was on the list with a linking article.
Oh, well.
I glanced down the list and saw two ways to divide it. One type of title would be the linking of a Greek or Latin root with phobia. Examples would be acrophobia, a fear of heights, not to be confused with arachnophobia, a fear of spiders. The best is phobophobia, a fear of fear. The other type would be linking some English word with phobia. I found two dazzlers: bozophobia and sissyphobia.
Pick your poison, or phobia.
homo unius libri
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