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phobia
Definitions
fearAn intense, persistent, illogical or abnormal fear of an object, condition, situation, or person.
QUOTES:
(1) Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal) pushing Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand) on the ledge of his hotel room because his jealous fiancée Eunice is knocking at the door in What's Up, Doc? (1972):
-- Judy: ' I can't! I'm terrified of heights. I have heights-a-phobia.'
-- Howard: ' Look, there's a ledge.'
-- Judy: ' I have ledge-a-phobia.'
-- Howard: ' She has a violent temper.'
-- Judy: ' I can't.'
-- Howard: ' She knows karate.'
-- Judy: ' Maybe I can.'
(2) Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) to Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin) who claims to suffer from aerophobia, acrophobia and claustrophobia in Midnight Run (1988): ' If you don't cooperate you'll also suffer from fistophobia! '
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