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ophidiophobia

/ɒˌfɪdiəˈfəʊbiə/noun

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साँपों से अत्यधिक डर

Advanced wordPYP · asked 2 times

Asked in previous papers

as one-word substitution

SSC CGL Pre 2024SSC MTS 2025
noun
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    an extreme fear of snakes

    साँपों से अत्यधिक डर

    • Her ophidiophobia kept her away from the forest trek.
    • Treatment for ophidiophobia often begins with simple pictures of harmless snakes.
    • Ophidiophobia is quite common, even among people who have never met a snake.
    + 2 more examples
    • He has ophidiophobia, so he never walks in tall grass.
    • A doctor helped her to overcome her ophidiophobia over several months.
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⌂Word origin and word building

Ophidio- comes from the Greek ophis, snake.

Ophidio- यूनानी ophis, साँप, से।

✓In the exam

One-word substitution

One-word substitution, asked very often (phobias): fear of snakes is ophidiophobia; spiders arachnophobia; heights acrophobia; water hydrophobia; closed spaces claustrophobia; crowds agoraphobia; strangers xenophobia; darkness nyctophobia; public speaking glossophobia.

यह बहुत पूछा जाता है (भय): साँपों का डर ophidiophobia; मकड़ियों का arachnophobia; ऊँचाई का acrophobia; पानी का hydrophobia; बंद जगह का claustrophobia; भीड़ का agoraphobia; अजनबियों का xenophobia; अँधेरे का nyctophobia; सार्वजनिक बोलने का glossophobia।