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There’s a word for it

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arachnophobia


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PRONUNCIATION:

(uh-rak-nuh-FO-bee-uh)

MEANING:

noun: An irrational fear of spiders.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek arakhne (spider) + -phobias (fear). Earliest documented use: 1925.

USAGE:

“A California university entomology graduate student grew up in Missouri and as a child was often rightfully warned about the dangers of brown recluse spiders. However, she also developed severe arachnophobia to the point where she couldn’t even look at a picture of a spider.”
Richard S. Vetter; The Brown Recluse Spider; Comstock; 2015.

See more usage examples of arachnophobia in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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