Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia— the common person would only contribute this words uniqueness to the ridiculous number of letters and time needed to have the ability to pronounce such a silly word. However, to a very few, this word represents a deep phobia. A phobia whose irony becomes prevalent only in its defining. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. It may seem silly, but what a world in which you can’t even name the very thing that scares you the most. Amazingly, this strange phobia of long words is only one of many seemly outrages fears.
From those who don’t suffer from the average, strange “phobia”, it may seem almost impossible to comprehend the tragic fear of such unadorned, daily objects. But here at last, let us explore the deep dark world of someone else’s reality…
Nine other strange phobias:
Phobophobia
-This is the fear of fear or the fear of developing a phobia.
Nephophobia
-This is the fear of clouds
Cacophobia
-This is the phobia of ugliness.
Linonophibia
-Fear of String.
Epistemophobia
-Fear of Knowledge. My question is how does one come to know their phobia if they are to scared to learn that it even exists…
Vestiophobia
-Fear of clothing.
Arachibutyrophobia
-Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Papaphobia
-Fear of the Pope
Panophibia
-The grand fear of them all. The fear of everything.
By: Donnie Kneepkens, Anxiety In Teens contributor
Source: http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment_200/223b_top_10_list.html