Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a morbid fear of everything.
- noun Same as
hydrophobia .
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- noun the
fear ofeverything - noun a condition of groundless fears
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Agoraphobia' is the fear of crossing an open space, 'batophobia' is the fear that high things will fall, 'siderophobia' is the fear of thunder and lightning, 'pathophobia' is the fear of disease, whilst 'pantophobia' is the fear of everything and everybody.
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And here, listen to this, 'batophobia, the fear that high things will fall, atrophobia, fear of thunder and lightning, pantophobia, the fear of every thing and every one' ....
The Branding Iron Katharine Newlin Burt 1929
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- Panophobia (pantophobia) is the fear of everything.
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Usage: Once his pantophobia started acting up, Willy found it necessary to cancel the lecture he was scheduled to give on Friday the 13th entitled: "The Care and Feeding of Your Black Cat."
no.stupid.answers 2008
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Things could be worse: count your blessings that you are not a victim of pantophobia -- the morbid dread of everything.
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(1876-1941): author of short stories and novels, pantophobia
no.stupid.answers 2008
whichbe commented on the word pantophobia
The fear of everything.
May 12, 2008