simple phobia

Questions about simple phobia

What does simple phobia mean?

simple phobia means "any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli".

Is simple phobia a common word?

simple 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.