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Triskaidekaphobia

Oh no, tomorrow is Friday the 13th! I HAVE TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA!!!
by kkfra77 August 28, 2016
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I would love to watch ‘House MDwith you, but I have a bad case of Triskaidekaphobia!
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triskaidekaphilia

Obsession with the number thirteen.

Triskaidekaphiles smile when they walk up thirteen steps, or a ball bounces thirteen times, or it's thirteen minutes past 1pm, or their room is on the 13th floor, or the change in their pocket somehow adds up to a multiple of 13, or the numbers in the licence plate of the car ahead add up to 13, or they find out that the Apollo 13 mission failed on April 13th, or they were born on the 13th, or they look closely at the Great Seal of the United States, or it's the 13th of the month, or there are thirteen people in a room, or someone bakes them a baker's dozen , or they can just about think up thirteen examples of triskaidekaphilia.

The word is greek for 'thirteen love'.

It's the opposite of triskaidekaphobia, which is where people have a problem with the number thirteen. Which is just weird.
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by rich13 August 1, 2009
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Tris (greek for three) deka (greek for 10) phobe (an individual affected by a certain fear) effectivey a triskaidekaphobe fears the number thirteen, or situation that involves anything in a 13 sequence... When a group of 13 objects is divided into two, three, four or six equal groups, there is always one leftover object. it is believed that Loki in the Norse pantheon was the 13th god. This was later Christianised into saying that Satan was the 13th angel. in a lunar calender there are 13 months as there are thirteen full moons a year, however the christian calender is only 12 months long... often times elevators in taller buildings skip the number 13.... the folloing is from wikipedia.com: The composer Arnold Schoenberg suffered from triskaidekaphobia. It is said that the reason his late opera is called Moses and Aron, rather than Moses and Aaron (the correct spelling with two As) is because the latter spelling has thirteen letters in it. He was born (and, it turned out, died) on the thirteenth of the month, and thought of this as a portent. He once refused to rent a house because it had the number 13, and feared turning 76, because its digits add up to thirteen. In an interesting story, it is believed that he feared Friday, July 13, 1951, as it was the first Friday the 13th of his 76th year. He reportedly stayed in bed that day preparing for what he thought as his death day. After begging her husband to wake up and "quit his nonsense," his skeptical wife was shocked when her husband simply uttered the word "harmony" and died. His time of death was 11:47 p.m., 13 minutes until midnight. Also, note that the digits of the time of his death add to 13 (1+1+4+7). end wikipedia.com quote
sitting at a table of thirteen is especially bad as it is rumored that one of those 13 will die within the year...

you refuse to buy that house because the house number is 13, you are such a triskaidekaphobe!
by Bridgit June 29, 2006
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triskadecaphobia

A fear, or phobia, of the number thirteen. Or anything dealing with 13
"I can't even leave my room on Friday the Thirteenth because i suffer from triskadecaphobia!"
by dave falini June 16, 2006
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Guy #1: Lets go to the store on floor 13.
Guy #2: Heck no!
Guy #1: Why not, you went to the other stores!
Guy #2: I have Triskadekaphobia!
by nyanwhiskers777 December 18, 2012
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TRISKAIDECAPHOBIA

One of my friend named Armaan suffered from triskaidecaphobia.
by Juzer Ali August 23, 2008
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