school phobia

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   a child's sudden fear of attending school

   Broadersocial phobia

Questions about school phobia

What does school phobia mean?

school phobia means "a child's sudden fear of attending school".

Is school phobia a common word?

school phobia 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.