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Arcane Phobias and Etymological Enigmas is a hard crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Arcane Phobias and Etymological Enigmas
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- 1. Perfectionist fear of imperfection or incompleteness
- 2. Fear of cleansing rituals, historically rooted in superstition
- 3. Aversion to a color often symbolizing cowardice and gold
- 5. Lunacy-inspired terror of the Earth's nocturnal satellite
- 6. Specific dread of baldness, intertwining aesthetic and social anxieties
- 11. Revulsion triggered by clustered irregular holes or pores
- 13. Terror of bursting spheres, often triggered by childhood trauma
- 15. Meta-fear of the very concept of fear itself
- 17. Modern anxiety from absence of mobile communication
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- 4. Classical avian-related dread, from Latin for bird
- 7. Dread of labor, coined from Greek for work
- 8. Aversion to novelty, linked to evolutionary risk assessment
- 9. Trepidation when crossing urban thoroughfares
- 10. Fear derived from the Greek word for snow, linked to isolation
- 12. Psychiatric fear of tactile contact, linked to trauma studies
- 14. Unease born from grotesque clown visages, from Latin clown
- 16. Ancient dread of flowers, symbolizing deeper cultural taboos
- 18. Apprehension towards deformity or ugliness, from Greek 'bad'
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