What is a Cleithrophobia?
Cleithrophobia, the fear of being trapped, is often confused with claustrophobia, the fear of enclosed spaces. Cleithrophobia is related to winter phobias due to the potential risk of being trapped underneath a snowdrift or thin ice.
What is Megalohydrothalassophobia?
Parallel Phobias and Treatment And this one, in particular, is a relatively common phobia. Bathophobia (fear of depths), cymophobia (fear of waves), megalohydrothalassophobia (fear of large underwater sea creatures and objects), and aquaphobia (fear of water) may also evolve into thalassophobic reactions.
Is Floccinaucinihilipilification a real word?
The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning “nothing” and defined as “the act of estimating something as worthless”; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.
What is the shortest word in the world?
Eunoia
What is the weirdest word ever?
Here are the fifteen most unusual words in the English language.
- Serendipity. This word appears in numerous lists of untranslatable words.
- Gobbledygook.
- Scrumptious.
- Agastopia.
- Halfpace.
- Impignorate.
- Jentacular.
- Nudiustertian.
Is nincompoop a bad word?
nincompoop Add to list Share. Calling someone a nincompoop is like calling them a fool, idiot, bonehead, or dope. It’s definitely not a compliment. Nincompoop is a silly-sounding word that’s also kind of old-fashioned, like ninny.
What are Gubbins?
1 dialectal, British : fish parings or refuse broadly : any bits and pieces : scraps. 2 British : gadgets, gadgetry the gubbins for changing a tire all the navigational gubbins— J. L. Rhys. 3 British : a foolish or futile person : simpleton you silly gubbins.
Why are we afraid of failure?
Fear of failure (or atychiphobia, for those of you who like that kind of stuff) hides in between the things we think we know about ourselves. Psychologist, Guy Winch, explains it as causing people to “unconsciously sabotage their chances of success, in a variety of ways.”
What causes fear?
The universal trigger for fear is the threat of harm, real or imagined. This threat can be for our physical, emotional or psychological well-being. While there are certain things that trigger fear in most of us, we can learn to become afraid of nearly anything.
How do I stop being afraid of messing up?
Here are four steps you can take:
- Redefine failure.
- Set approach goals (not avoidance goals).
- Create a “fear list.” Author and investor Tim Ferriss recommends “fear-setting,” creating a checklist of what you are afraid to do and what you fear will happen if you do it.
- Focus on learning.