phobic disorder

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   an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations

   “phobic disorder is a general term for all phobias”

   Synonymsphobiaphobic neurosis

   Broaderanxiety disorder

   Narroweragoraphobiasimple phobiasocial phobia

Questions about phobic disorder

What does phobic disorder mean?

phobic disorder means "an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations".

What is another word for phobic disorder?

Close synonyms include phobia, phobic neurosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phobic disorder a common word?

phobic disorder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.