Usually means: Intense, irrational fear of something.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word phobia:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. phobia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -phobia, phobia: Merriam-Webster
  3. -phobia, phobia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. phobia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -phobia, phobia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Phobia, phobia: Wordnik
  7. -phobia, phobia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -phobia, phobia: Wiktionary
  9. -phobia, phobia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -phobia, phobia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. phobia: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -phobia, phobia: Dictionary.com
  13. phobia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. phobia: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ...Phobia, Phobia (Breaking Benjamin album), Phobia (The Kinks album), Phobia (band), Phobia (comics), Phobia (disambiguation), Phobia, -phobia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. phobia: Rhymezone
  17. -phobia, phobia: MyWord.info
  18. phobia: FreeDictionary.org
  19. phobia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. phobia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. phobia: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -phobia: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phobia: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phobia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. phobia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Phobia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  5. Phobia: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. phobia: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  12. -phobia, phobia: Medical dictionary
  13. Phobia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PHOBIA, Phobia: The Phobia List

(Note: See phobias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
noun:  An aversion or dislike (of something).

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