Aibohphobia is the
(unofficial) fear of palindromes
, which are words that read the same front and back and, you guessed it, the word itself is a palindrome.
Who created the word Aibohphobia?
But who started this crazy craze in English? Why, none other than
Elizabethan playwright and poet Ben Jonson
How do you pronounce Aibohphobia?
- Phonetic spelling of aibohphobia. A-buh-FO-BEE-A. ai-boh-pho-bi-a. a-boe-fo-bi-a.
- Meanings for aibohphobia.
- Antonyms for aibohphobia. ailihphilia.
What is the fear in deserts?
Eremophobia
. Definition – The morbid dread of being alone. Eremophobia comes from the Greek word erēmia means “desert” (a place where there are no other people). … Nor is he obviously afflicted by fear of desert spaces, eremophobia.
What is the meaning of Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary — and, in an ironic twist, is the name
for a fear of long words
. Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia.
What’s the fear of palindromes called?
Aibohphobia
is the (unofficial) fear of palindromes, which are words that read the same front and back and, you guessed it, the word itself is a palindrome.
What is the rarest fear?
- Ablutophobia | Fear of bathing. …
- Arachibutyrophobia | Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. …
- Arithmophobia | Fear of math. …
- Chirophobia | Fear of hands. …
- Chloephobia | Fear of newspapers. …
- Globophobia (Fear of balloons) …
- Omphalophobia | Fear of Umbilicus (Bello Buttons)
What is Macrophobia?
Morbid fear of long waits
.
Which word takes 3 hours to say?
You will be surprised to know that the longest word in English has 1, 89,819 letters and it will take you three and a half hours to pronounce it correctly. This is a chemical name of
titin
, the largest known protein.
What is titin full name?
So what’s the word? Wikipedia’s says that it’s “
Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl … isoleucine” (ellipses necessary)
, which is the “chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.” Also, there’s some dispute about whether this is really a word.
Is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious a real word in the dictionary?
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a
nonsensical word
that is sometimes used to describe something as being great or extraordinary. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is used especially by children and fans of Disney movies to describe something as being really good.
What is the longest sentence that is spelled the same backwards?
The longest palindrome in English is often considered
tattarrattat
, coined by James Joyce in his 1922 Ulysses to imitate the sound of a knock on the door. That’s 12 letters.
What is the most common phobia?
- Arachnophobia (Fear of spiders)
- Ophidiophobia (Fear of snakes)
- Acrophobia (Fear of heights)
- Aerophobia (Fear of flying)
- Cynophobia (Fear of dogs)
- Astraphobia (Fear of thunder and lightning)
- Trypanophobia (Fear of injections)
What are the 3 fears your born with?
Spiders, snakes, the dark
– these are called natural fears, developed at a young age, influenced by our environment and culture.
