Words similar to phobia

Example sentences for: phobia

How can you use “phobia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Drug makers underwrite research into "social phobia" and stoke public hysteria with slogans such as "Imagine Being Allergic to People."
Regarding my traveling companion: Bob forbade me from talking about his germ phobia, although it was kind of hard to understand what he was saying through that surgical mask he was wearing.
It has occurred to Prudie that maybe she's the secret love child of Howard Hughes because of her own slight phobia about germs.
Still, Friday the 13 th phobia is widespread.
While we're at it, why not outlaw all words and expressions we've purloined over the years from specialized fields--such as melancholy, hectic, chronic , and allergic (medicine); leading question , time is of the essence (law); by and large, high and dry, slush fund, round robin, aloof (sailing); ego, extrovert, complex, phobia, psyche, depression, trauma, subconscious (same place as empathy); and many more of what Fowler called popularized technicalities.