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psychopathology: phobia


An anxiety disorder or symptom characterized by avoidance of a situation out of fear or out of anticipation that anxiety would accompany exposure.

Also: acrophobia, agoraphobia, avoidant, counterphobic, homophobia, panic disorder, phobic, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Specific Phobia, Social Phobia, triskaidekaphobia

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