This week’s theme
Words made with combining forms

This week’s words
kleptomania
stenophagous
pantophobia
hagiology
endogenous

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(pan-tuh-FO-bee-uh)

MEANING:

noun: A fear of everything.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek panto- (all) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1807.

USAGE:

“Mr. Woodhouse’s pantophobia is reimagined as being the result of Cold War fear-mongering and an overly protective mother.”
Julianne Dudley; Austen in Haste; The Weekly Standard (Washington, DC); Aug 17, 2015.

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