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noun an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations
originFirst attested in c. 1790, from words ending in -phobia, ultimately from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”). Compare ism, from -ism, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.
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