"irrational fear, horror, aversion," 1786, perhaps on model of similar use in French, abstracted from compounds in -phobia, from Greek -phobia, from phobos "fear, panic fear, terror, outward show of fear; object of fear or terror," originally "flight" (still the only sense in Homer), but it became the common word for "fear" via the notion of "panic, fright" (compare phobein "put to flight, frighten"), from PIE root *bhegw- "to run" (cognates: Lithuanian begu "to flee;" Old Church Slavonic begu "flight," bezati "to flee, run;" Old Norse bekkr "a stream"). Psychological sense attested by 1895.
例文
1. He is having therapy to conquer his phobia .
彼は自分の恐怖症を克服するために治療を受けている。
2.He has a phobia about flying.
彼は飛行に恐怖症である。
3.She has a phobia about water and can 't swim.
彼女は水が怖いので泳げない。
4.The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.
恐怖症は幼少期のトラウマに由来する可能性がある。
5.This phobia can cause untold misery for the sufferer.