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"PHOBIAS" is a plural of: phobia. |
Date "PHOBIAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An exaggerated and invariably pathological dread of some specific type of stimulus or situation. (references) |
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Crosswords: PHOBIAS |
| English words defined with "PHOBIAS": desensitization procedure, desensitization technique ♦ systematic desinsitization. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PHOBIAS": obsessional neurosis. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Phobias (2003) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The more common are simple phobia (in which the panic occurs immediately before or upon exposure to the feared situation and nowhere else) and social phobias in which they occur only when individuals feel they are the focus of others' attention (e.g. while eating). (references) | |
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| "PHOBIAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHOBIAS" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PHOBIAS": acrophobias, agoraphobias, ailurophobias, claustrophobias, computerphobias, homophobias, hydrophobias, negrophobias, photophobias, technophobias, triskaidekaphobias, xenophobias. (additional references) | |
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"PHOBIAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fobia, Hobyah, phebian, phibia, phobea, phobeas, phobes, phobiae, phobian, phobie, phobos, phoby, phocids, phoebidas, Phomis, phoria, Photius, phukians, Pihigia, pobia, Povilas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PHOBIAS" (pronounced fō"bēuz) |
| 3 | -ē u z | anemias, areas, arias, arrhythmias, cafeterias, corneas, encyclopedias, forsythias, mafias, petunias, poinsettias, utopias, victorias, zinnias. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: bishop, phobia, poisha. | |
-2 letters: aphis, apish, obias, ohias, opahs, psoai, sahib, spahi. | |
-3 letters: abos, baps, bash, bias, bios, boas, bops, bosh, haps, hasp, hips, hobs, hops, isba, obia, obis, ohia, opah, pash, phis, pias, pish, piso, pois, posh, ship, shop, soap, soph. | |
-4 letters: abo, abs, ais, ash, asp, bah, bap, bas, bio, bis, boa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-i-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: basophil. | |
+2 letters: basophile, basophils, shipboard. | |
+3 letters: amphibious, amphiboles, archbishop, basophiles, basophilia, basophilic, chipboards, euphorbias, hospitable, hospitably, shipboards. | |
+4 letters: acrophobias, amphibolies, archbishops, basophilias, biographees, biographers, biographies, biophysical, brachiopods, homophobias, vibraphones, xenophobias. | |
+5 letters: agoraphobias, agoraphobics, ailurophobes, amphibiously, amphibolites, branchiopods, haptoglobins, hydrophobias, inhospitable, inhospitably, negrophobias, photophobias, vibraphonist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 4F 42 49 41 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .... --- -... .. .- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001000 01001111 01000010 01001001 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P H O B I A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0048 004F 0042 0049 0041 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50424936433553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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