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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
–phobia
 
SUFFIX: An intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing: xenophobia.
ETYMOLOGY:Late Latin, from Greek -phobi, from phobos, fear. See bhegw- in Appendix I.
 
 
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