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counterphobia

counterphobia noun: a compulsion to seek out the causes of fear or anxiety instead of avoiding them.

Noun

counterphobia (countable and uncountable, plural counterphobias)

  1. A compulsion to seek out the causes of fear or anxiety instead of avoiding them.
    • Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch horror movies on late-night television […]2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself

counterphobia meaning in Tamil

counterphobia in Tamil

அச்சச்சூழல் வெருளி

Forms of counterphobia

pluralcounterphobias

Origin of counterphobia

From counter- + phobia.

Questions about counterphobia

What does counterphobia mean?
Counterphobia means a compulsion to seek out the causes of fear or anxiety instead of avoiding them.
What is counterphobia in Tamil?
Counterphobia in Tamil is அச்சச்சூழல் வெருளி. See Counterphobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is counterphobia?
Counterphobia is a noun.
What is the plural of counterphobia?
The plural of counterphobia is counterphobias.

Words near counterphobia in the dictionary

  1. counterphasic
  2. counterphilosophies
  3. counterphilosophy
  4. counterphobe
  5. counterphobes
  6. counterphobia
  7. counterphobias
  8. counterphobic
  9. counterphrase
  10. counterphrases
  11. counterpicket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: counterphobia (page history and authors); counterphobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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