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Phonophobic

Avoiding answering the phone at home when telemarketers call or when your caller ID reveals someone you just simply haven't got the energy to talk to.
I don't want to talk to them, so I'll let it go to voicemail as I'm phonophobic tonight
Phonophobic by Jasperdistra November 25, 2010

pogonophobic 

I can't sit next to that bearded man- you know i'm pogonophobic!!
pogonophobic by Clare Lawry April 11, 2007

Phobophobia 

Being afraid of being afraid.

This is something you can really get worked up with.
A: Don't scare him. He has phobophobia.
B: AAAAH! That was scary .... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Phobophobia by lyomi June 13, 2012
Word of the Day on August 7, 2017

Phobophobia 

The phobia of being scared. If you have it, you're literary scared of being scared... It's like, phobiception.
You're scared that you'll be scared, but then you realise you're scared of being scared, so then you're scared and then you're even more scared, because you just realised you're scared of being scared and that makes you even more scared which makes you so scared that you're very very scared which completely scares you and you're so scared of being scared that you can't help being scared, but you're scared that you are scared... That's phobophobia for you :/
Phobophobia by TerribleDefinitions February 17, 2015

photophobia 

Photophobia is a fear of, or adverse physical or psychological reaction to light. Whether from rapid change of light intensity, or sudden burst of bright light, as from a camera flash. Not to be confused with heliophobia, which is a fear of the Sun.
When we went to the laser light show, Jon must've got a case of photophobia. He puked and had a seizure.
photophobia by Bada Bing, Bada Boom September 1, 2013

prhomophobic 

Pro-homosexual to a point where you favour them for no apparent reason.

Could be due to the increased sensitivity of the world where something negative said against a homosexual would be construed as homophobic.

Therefore homosexuals are still treated differently, but instead of insults etc, they are put up on a pedestal.

(It's ok for me to say this because I'm gay)
Jess: Wow that gay guy on television has an amazing voice!
Paul: You just like him because he's gay, you are prhomophobic.
prhomophobic by hansaplast October 31, 2011
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