Welcome to another mind-bending episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Don't let your brain go into hibernation for the winter -- wake it up with some mental exercises like learning new words. Here's a Word of the Week warm-up to get you started:Phobophobia:
1. An abnormal fear of being afraid, a fear of fear itself.
2. A fear of phobias.
-- "-Ologies & -Isms: A Thematic Dictionary", Howard G. Zettler, Ph.D., Ed., Gale Research Company, 1978.
Example: When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," another word for that would have been phobophobia. It just wouldn't have sounded quite as good.
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