Opus 2014-202:  New Terms:  Theophobia

I was reading in Proverbs and came across one of the references to the fear of the Lord.  My mind went on a tangent.  I thought of a term that gets thrown around a lot, “homophobic”, and began to wonder why we have not heard much about theophobia, the fear of God.  I thought I was onto something new.

Wikipedia has an entire category on words ending in “phobia.”   Theophobia was on the list with a linking article.

Oh, well.

I glanced down the list and saw two ways to divide it.  One type of title would be the linking of a Greek or Latin root with phobia.  Examples would be acrophobia, a fear of heights, not to be confused with arachnophobia, a fear of spiders.  The best is phobophobia, a fear of fear.  The other type would be linking some English word with phobia.  I found two dazzlers:  bozophobia and sissyphobia.

Pick your poison, or phobia.

homo unius libri